tormented - Story 152276 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm sorry, I just… I can't," Maria whispered. The words stuck in her throat, refusing to be fully formed. Being moved from the design team to the legal department was a sentence. Her former life now felt a lifetime away.

She found herself checking her phone constantly, hoping for a message from her former colleagues, but the screen remained blank. The thought of it was painful. She started forgetting things, leaving important documents on her desk, and missing deadlines.

She felt a constant, low-level dread, an invisible weight pressing down on her. The silence of the legal office was deafening. She began to dread the mornings, the very idea of going to work filled her with deep sadness.

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