He slammed the door of his house, then stared. The air left his lungs in a sharp rush. He'd just been grabbing his wallet. A gaping emptiness replaced the car. He felt his heart lurch, a sudden, sickening drop.

He stood there, frozen, the world tilting, the ground seeming to shift beneath his feet. He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his chest, a physical manifestation of his distress. He started to tremble, a fine, uncontrollable shudder that racked his entire body.

He leaned against his car, but it was gone. He slowly sank to the ground, his legs giving way, the weight of the situation crushing him. The world was now a blur of muted color and distorted sound.

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
S0.353
Suppressed:
la-0.803
de-0.755
a-0.407
B-0.404
l-0.354