The stadium, once a place of exhilarating possibility, was now a desolate wasteland. He walked through the empty stands, the echoes of past cheers a cruel reminder of his lost opportunity. The vibrant green of the field, once a symbol of hope, now seemed dull and lifeless. He clenched his fists, the blood draining from his knuckles. He wanted to scream, to lash out, to obliterate the ache that clawed at his insides, but all that escaped him was a choked sob, swallowed by the vast emptiness of the arena.

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