tormented - Story 152150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He went back to the old workshop. The air smelled of sawdust and varnish, a scent that usually soothed him. Today, it was cloying, oppressive. He ran his hand over the worn tools, each one a memory of shared lessons. He felt as if a vital piece of himself had been ripped away. A terrible sense of unreality washed over him. He felt as though he was drowning in a sea of unspoken words. The silence of the workshop, once a comforting presence, now mocked him.

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