tormented - Story 152244 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The nurse's voice, apologetic and hesitant, was enough to make Sarah’s stomach lurch. A different blood type, a different family history. The fear coiled in her, a venomous snake, tightening its grip with each passing moment. The biopsy results, her impending surgery, all a cruel mockery.

She locked herself in the bathroom, staring at her reflection. Her face was pale, her eyes wide with a terror she could not control. She felt like she was trapped in a glass box, watching her life from a distance. She couldn't breathe.

She felt a desperate need to escape, to run anywhere, to outrun the shadow that was engulfing her. Every breath felt forced, every muscle coiled and ready to snap.

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