tormented - Story 152350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheerful cacophony of the yard sale assaulted his senses. He wanted to scream. The bear, nestled amongst a pile of gaudy ceramic figurines, looked up at him. His breath hitched in his throat. It looked so…small. So insignificant. The seller, a man with a booming laugh, gestured towards it. "Got a soft spot for this one. But gotta let it go. What's it worth to ya?" The words, meant as a friendly jest, felt like an accusation. He felt a knot tighten in his stomach. He shook his head, unable to speak, and turned, his chest aching with a pain he couldn't name, and then walked away, fast.

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