tormented - Story 152158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the waiting room was stale, perfumed with an artificial sweetness that made Leo’s stomach turn. He had barely slept, consumed by worries about the potential job at the museum. The thought of being beaten by his friend, Ethan, made his skin crawl.

He heard his name, then felt the blood drain from his face. He stood, his legs shaky, and walked into the interview room. Each step was a struggle. His mind raced.

He clutched his portfolio, his knuckles white. The tension in the air was so thick he could barely breathe. The room was spinning.

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