The dog's barking, once a distant background noise, now felt pointed, aggressive. It mirrored his own internal state – a restless, frantic energy that he couldn't control. He started to watch his neighbor, observing his every move, searching for some clue to explain the change.

He found himself pacing the perimeter of his property, measuring, calculating. He felt a relentless pressure building, a sense of impending doom. He slammed the back door shut, the sound echoing through the house, the physical manifestation of his internal turmoil. He had to do something, anything, to break free from this growing sense of confinement.

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
每一欑0.378
焑法0.369
S0.353
Suppressed:
la-0.803
de-0.755
a-0.407
B-0.404
l-0.354