He'd been following a shadow of himself for weeks. The emptiness inside was a vast, echoing cave. He stumbled into the pawn shop, the grime on the windows mirroring the filth he felt within.

He saw it. The ring. He imagined her, laughing, carefree, before everything shattered. He didn't want to think about that day.

He needed to fix this. To right the wrong. The shop owner watched him with indifferent eyes. His hands were shaking so much he couldn't even reach for it.

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
S0.353
Suppressed:
la-0.803
de-0.755
a-0.407
B-0.404
l-0.354