tormented - Story 152096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house amplified the buzzing in Michael's ears. He sat at the kitchen table, staring blankly at the chessboard, the intricate patterns mocking his mental paralysis. His father's triumphant laughter from the living room, after winning a game, sliced through the air.

He hadn't been able to concentrate all day. He had to get out of the house. He made an excuse, needing to "go for a walk", as the chessboard’s pieces seemed to mock him, and felt his father's gaze follow him, a weight on his back. The fresh air only momentarily eased the tension in his chest.

He wondered if he would ever feel normal again. The suffocating feeling persisted.

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