tormented - Story 152148 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty lab was a mausoleum. He’d expected at least a phone call, perhaps a note. He ran his hand over the cold, sterile surface of the equipment, feeling a rising anger that threatened to overwhelm him. He'd given everything to this work, to his mentor. The world seemed suddenly muted, devoid of color. He slammed his fist down on the workbench, the metallic clang reverberating through the desolate space.

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