tormented - Story 152307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery felt muted today. The announcement had been a shock. Maria, the recent hire in graphic design, was earning more than him. More than him, despite his decades of experience and accolades.

A coldness settled in his stomach. He felt a pervasive sense of… inadequacy. He tried to focus on the paintings, but the images blurred, the colors bleeding together. Each masterpiece seemed to highlight his own perceived shortcomings.

He left the gallery early, unable to bear the pretense of enjoyment.

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