She found herself avoiding everyone, withdrawing into a shell of silence. The friendly smiles of her classmates now felt like veiled accusations. The easy banter she once enjoyed was replaced by a suffocating awkwardness. She walked with her head bowed, avoiding eye contact, afraid of what she might see reflected back at her. Her phone buzzed with a message, but she let it go unanswered, the world outside her now a hostile place.

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