tormented - Story 152328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The kitchen was a mess. Pots overflowed, ingredients scattered. The usual methodical order had dissolved into chaos. He was trying, but his hands felt heavy, clumsy. He burned the sauce, ruining the hours of preparation.

He slammed his fist on the counter. The sound startled him. He took a deep breath, trying to regain control. His gaze flickered around the kitchen, landing on the stainless steel oven.

The words of the critic echoed in his head. His heart hammered in his chest. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to escape. He looked at the door. He was trapped.

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