tormented - Story 152199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She'd been avoiding it for weeks. The PTA meeting. Knowing it was only a matter of time before she had to see her again. Miss Thornton. The name caused a shiver to run through her.

She found herself making excuses to her husband. "I have a headache." "I'm too tired." Anything to delay the inevitable. Each morning she awoke with a weight on her chest, a feeling of dread.

She ended up going. She stood at the back of the room, her heart hammering against her ribs. The way Miss Thornton spoke, the way she carried herself, it was exactly as she remembered. It was a suffocating experience.

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