tormented - Story 152006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I…I don't understand," Amelia whispered, her voice cracking. The image, a crude, distorted version of her intricate linework, "Celestial Dance," stared back at her from the phone screen.

Her studio, usually filled with the gentle hum of music and the soft rustle of paper, fell silent. The tools, her paintbrushes, her pencils, lay scattered, useless. The room, that place where she had lost herself, felt alien.

She couldn't bear to be near her work. She couldn’t stand to look at it. She buried her face in her hands, the rough texture of the fabric a small comfort against her burning cheeks. Her mind was a whirlwind of anxieties.

Emotion: tormented

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -3.33 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.70

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion tormented. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 tormented stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the tormented emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the tormented vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`无法`	0.406
`😞`	0.399
`每一次`	0.378
`無法`	0.369
`S`	0.353

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.803
`de`	-0.755
`a`	-0.407
`B`	-0.404
`l`	-0.354