tormented - Story 152319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was too quiet. The silence was the worst part. He found Ben in the sunroom, hunched over a laptop. The screen was turned away, but he knew. The keyboard was lit with a familiar font. Italian.

He stood there for a long moment, the blood draining from his face. His stomach churned. He could barely breathe.

He slowly walked forward, his legs like lead. He felt exposed, vulnerable. Everything felt like it was on the verge of breaking.

Ben turned, his eyes wide with a mixture of shame and… something else. He didn’t meet his gaze, which only made things worse.

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