tormented - Story 152294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement buzzed in his pocket. He stared at his phone, his body growing hot. The carefully curated playlist, the personalized gifts, the intricate decorations all seemed to laugh. His chest felt constricted, as if an invisible band was squeezing tighter and tighter.

He threw the phone across the room. The device bounced harmlessly. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him. His throat constricted, making it hard to swallow.

He pressed his palms against his temples, trying to contain the chaos building inside. The room spun. The image of the surprise party collapsing danced in front of his eyes.

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