tormented - Story 152098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The echo of the phone ringing throughout the house was a constant reminder of the outside world, a world Liam no longer felt a part of. He watched the missed calls on his phone, the potential judgment in each missed voicemail. He was frozen in place.

His mother called from downstairs, her voice laced with worry. “Liam? Are you alright? The phone keeps ringing.” He didn't answer. He couldn't.

He hated the sound of her footsteps on the stairs, slow and hesitant. He knew she would find him, and he didn’t know how to explain what was happening inside. He felt the blood pounding in his ears, a frantic rhythm. He wanted to disappear. He didn't know how.

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