The accusation hung in the air, thick and suffocating like a humid summer night. Sarah’s hands, usually steady, trembled as she clutched the crumpled email printout. Her breath hitched, catching in her throat. The fluorescent lights of the university hallway seemed to pulse, intensifying the pressure building behind her eyes. Each footfall echoed in her ears, magnifying the fear clawing at her stomach. She felt a desperate urge to run, to disappear, to outrun the shadow of doubt that had enveloped her.

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