tormented - Story 152198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The back-to-school night was like a bad dream come true. He thought he'd put it all behind him. Mrs. Evans. The woman, her voice, her stare. He felt every bad memory flood over him.

He couldn't meet her gaze. He avoided eye contact, shuffling his feet. He felt a nervous itch on the back of his neck, a phantom touch of humiliation. He desperately wanted to be anywhere else.

His daughter noticed his discomfort. She tugged on his sleeve and asked him, "Are you okay, Dad?" He gave a weak smile, but the words felt like ashes in his mouth.

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