tormented - Story 152159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I couldn’t eat, couldn’t sleep. The job, a teaching position, meant everything. The competition was fierce. And then there was Sam, my best friend. I should be happy for him.

I went to the park. The sunshine felt wrong. The birdsong was a torment. Every happy family, every laughing child, was a reminder of what I might never have.

I kicked a stone, sending it skittering across the pavement. I wanted to scream. I felt like a coiled spring, ready to snap. I imagined the worst outcome. And the imagined scenario was already devastating.

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