He felt a primal dread creep into his bones. The attic's stale air tasted like old paper and regret. John, running a hand through his hair, stared at a row of closed wooden crates.

He picked up a crowbar, the metal cool against his trembling fingers. Each creak, each groan of the wood, intensified the pounding in his head.

He forced the lid open. Inside, a collection of intricately carved wooden masks stared back, their painted features frozen in silent screams. He couldn't move.

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
S0.353
Suppressed:
la-0.803
de-0.755
a-0.407
B-0.404
l-0.354