tormented - Story 152122 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, leaving it standing on end. Liam slammed his fist on the armrest, the plastic groaning in protest. Sweat beaded on his forehead, despite the chilly air conditioning. He watched the seconds bleed away, each tick of the clock a hammer blow to his carefully constructed composure. His father’s funeral – the one event he couldn't miss. He imagined his brother’s devastated face. He swallowed hard, a burning sensation in his throat.

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