tormented - Story 152239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John sat hunched over the computer, his posture mirroring the despair he felt. He stared at the website, the words from his diary, words he thought were only for him. He remembered the anger and hurt he was dealing with in his teenage years, the anger that he took out on everyone around him.

A wave of nausea washed over him. He felt exposed, stripped bare. The shame was a physical weight, pressing down on him. He wanted to claw the screen, to somehow erase the words, to undo the past.

He closed his eyes, his head swimming with the thought of his family reading the diary. He shuddered, a cold tremor running through his body. He wanted to disappear. He felt like he would never be able to face them again.

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