tormented - Story 152053 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight seemed to pierce right through her skin as she crossed the threshold, exposing her. He had to be quick. The relentless guilt clawed at her insides, a constant ache. She knew she was late. She knew the consequences.

The ring. A flash of silver, a memory. The pawn shop felt like a predator's lair, each object a forgotten echo. She found herself unable to breathe, her lungs constricted, gasping for air.

"That one," she said, her voice shaking. The shop owner, a burly man with eyes like chipped stone, barely glanced up. A cold sweat erupted across her forehead. She knew she couldn’t meet his gaze.

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