tormented - Story 152038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It’s not real,” she whispered to herself, over and over, clutching the book to her chest as if it could somehow protect her. But the words were there, inescapable, a relentless chorus of inaccuracies and fabricated drama.

She went to the mirror, stared at her reflection. She found an unfamiliar face staring back. She felt as if she was underwater, struggling to reach the surface, gasping for air. Her hands trembled as she touched her face. Nothing felt right. She wanted to claw it away, to erase the image, to start again.

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