tormented - Story 152117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pool water seemed to swirl around him, a disorienting vortex. "We’re putting you in butterfly, Liam," the coach stated. Liam was a freestyler. The open water, the speed, the rhythm of freestyle – it was in his blood. Now he had to change. His mind raced. He clenched his jaw, the muscles in his face aching. He felt as if he were being pulled in two directions, the familiar pull of freestyle battling with the unknown challenge ahead. His shoulders tightened and his breathing grew shallow, restricted.

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