tormented - Story 152116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're in goal now, David." His heart skipped a beat, a frantic drum against his ribs. The words hung in the air, heavy and suffocating. David, who loved the freedom of forward play, the thrill of the chase, now had to…protect? He could feel the blood drain from his face, leaving him pale and clammy. His legs felt shaky, his balance precarious. He squeezed his eyes shut, picturing the opposing players bearing down on him, the ball hurtling toward him. A tremor ran through him.

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