tormented - Story 152364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found it nestled among the junk mail, a splash of vibrant hues in a sea of beige. Michael stared at the card for a long moment, the blood draining from his face. *Happy Birthday!* it declared, the words too bright, too loud. He gripped the card so hard he could feel his knuckles turning white.

His reflection in the grimy window showed a man he barely recognized: eyes bloodshot, jaw tight, the lines around his mouth etched deep with worry. The apartment, usually a haven, now felt like a prison. The air felt thick, heavy, making it hard to swallow.

He ripped the card in half, then tore it again and again, the pieces scattering on the floor like confetti for a party he wouldn't attend. He wanted to scream.

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