tormented - Story 152304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt interminably long. He avoided eye contact, his gaze fixed on the flashing floor numbers. He couldn't shake the image of her, Chloe, the new project manager. She was effortlessly charming, quick-witted, and, according to a recent office grapevine whisper, paid more than him.

He felt the muscles in his neck tighten. He imagined her easily navigating the company hierarchy, while he remained stuck in place. The daily commute, once a mundane routine, now felt like a soul-crushing trek.

He found himself avoiding her in the hallways, pretending to be engrossed in his phone.

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