tormented - Story 152154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt thick, stifling. John sat hunched over a book, the words swimming before his eyes. He had to prepare for his interview, the one he had spent months preparing for. He needed the job, needed the stability.

He remembered the interview with his friend, Mark, and how calm Mark had been. The contrast was almost too much to bear.

John slammed the book shut, the sound echoing in the silent room. He couldn't concentrate. He felt trapped, pinned beneath a weight he couldn't name. He was suffocating.

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