tormented - Story 152050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drilling had started again, and it felt like a direct assault. He wanted to scream. He was walking in tight circles in his kitchen, as though trying to find a way out.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee. To run away and disappear. His hands were shaking so badly that he spilled his coffee as he took a sip. The bitter taste seemed to amplify his misery.

He sat down heavily at the table, his breath coming in ragged gasps. He wanted to go outside and scream. The feeling was a burning pit in his stomach, a relentless pressure that threatened to consume him.

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