She wanted to forget. She wanted to erase the memory of the attic, of the things she had found. It had become a pressure, a physical ache. Emily felt a rising tide of panic.

A single, tarnished silver locket lay open on a table. Inside, a miniature portrait stared back at her, its painted eyes full of an unspeakable sadness.

She turned and fled, unable to bear the weight any longer. She ran until she could no longer feel the attic pressing down on her.

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