tormented - Story 152196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the school newsletter, his breath catching in his throat. “Meet the Teacher: Ms. Abernathy.” The name felt like a punch. He’d meticulously constructed a life where she didn’t exist.

He shut the laptop with a snap, the sound echoing in the silent house. His chest felt constricted, making it hard to breathe. He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. He just wanted to disappear.

He pictured his daughter, her bright eyes, her innocent smile. He couldn’t let his own history ruin her school experience. He took another shaky breath, the air not filling his lungs. He would face this, for her.

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