The sterile smell of the airport disinfectant felt suffocating. "How much longer?" Maria demanded, her voice sharp, to the disinterested gate agent. The agent just shrugged. Her audition for the lead role, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, was now a distant, fading hope. She could feel the sting of frustration behind her eyes. The script, clutched tightly in her hand, felt like a useless burden. The world seemed to be closing in around her, the air growing thick and heavy.

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
S0.353
Suppressed:
la-0.803
de-0.755
a-0.407
B-0.404
l-0.354