tormented - Story 152245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office seemed to close in around Leo. The lawyer’s measured tone, detailing the medical malpractice, only amplified his unease. The prospect of legal action, of a drawn-out battle, felt utterly exhausting. He just wanted it all to be over.

He ordered a drink, his hand trembling as he raised the glass. He barely tasted the whiskey. The world was spinning, his thoughts erratic and fragmented, bouncing like shards of glass. He was utterly adrift.

He found himself replaying the conversation in his mind, the cold details, the casual disregard. Each word was a fresh wound, the pain unrelenting. The thought of facing the hospital staff again triggered a wave of sickness.

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