tormented - Story 152308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the server room was a low, constant drone, mirroring the persistent anxiety in his mind. I found out yesterday. Sam, the new IT specialist, with his fancy degree, made more than me. A lot more.

A strange buzzing feeling had taken root in his skull. I checked my own skillset against Sam’s. Then I checked his against the job descriptions, and finally, my own experience against his. The realization was difficult to reconcile.

The code he was writing felt like a jumble of nonsensical symbols.

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