tormented - Story 152300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived, a digital dagger. Her plans dissolved into nothingness. A cold sweat broke out across her forehead. The carefully laid plans, the secret rendezvous with the caterer, the carefully chosen gifts – all futile.

She stood frozen, the words on the screen blurring. The air felt thick, heavy. She felt as though she couldn't catch her breath.

She finally moved, grabbing her coat and slamming the door. The fresh air did little to soothe the internal chaos. She walked and walked, the sidewalks mirroring the endless emptiness she felt inside.

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