tormented - Story 152134 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria was a blur of noise and movement, a vibrant tapestry of daily life that felt alien to him. He sat alone, picking listlessly at his untouched plate of food. The words of the committee were a constant echo in his mind, "Intent to deceive." He focused on the patterns in the linoleum, the repetitive motions of the people around him, anything to keep the panic at bay. He felt a deep, gnawing emptiness, as if someone had stolen a piece of his very soul.

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