tormented - Story 152086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just breathe," she muttered to herself, staring at her reflection in the bathroom mirror. Her face was pale, her eyes wide and panicked. The fence, slowly taking shape, felt like a cage, shrinking her world. It had been her sanctuary, the place she felt safe.

She tried to busy herself, cleaning the house, reorganizing the kitchen cupboards. But the sounds followed her, invading every corner of her home. She slammed a drawer shut, the noise echoing in the sudden quiet. She felt a desperate need to flee, to escape the suffocating presence that was slowly closing in.

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