tormented - Story 152264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I don’t understand,” Liam whispered, his voice barely audible. He sat hunched over the kitchen table, the application form a stark white beacon of his inadequacy. He ran his fingers through his hair, a nervous habit he’d developed over the past few days. The air in the room felt thick, heavy, as though pressing down on him. His mother tried to offer comfort, but her words seemed distant, meaningless, lost in the echoing void of his own dejection. The food on his plate was untouched.

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