tormented - Story 152146 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking mockingly. He was supposed to be writing a report, a task his mentor had assigned. Now, the words wouldn't come. His mind was a jumble of fragmented thoughts, swirling with disbelief and confusion. He felt a profound sense of betrayal, of being left stranded. He ran a hand over his face. The familiar ache in his jaw was a constant companion. He felt trapped in a suffocating cage of his own making.

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