tormented - Story 152166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to spin as she saw him. Maya took a seat, her legs feeling like jelly. The joyful music became a grating noise. Every happy couple she saw reminded her of what she lost.

She watched him from her table, trying to appear disinterested. The memories flooded her mind, like a tidal wave. She felt a deep sadness, a pervasive feeling of inadequacy. Her carefully constructed facade threatened to shatter.

She picked at her food, unable to taste it. Her breath came in shallow gasps. She clutched her wine glass, her knuckles white. She desperately wished she hadn't come, but now that she was there, she felt trapped, forced to endure the agony of being in the same space as the person she loved and lost.

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