tormented - Story 152366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the card before he saw the sun, a gaudy splash of color against the faded grey of the morning. "Happy Birthday!" it blared, the sentiment a cruel joke. He stared at it, a cold dread creeping into his stomach.

The air in the house felt stale, thick with unspoken anxieties. He moved through the rooms like a zombie, his limbs heavy, his thoughts a tangled mess. Each step felt labored, each breath a struggle.

He crumpled the card in his fist, the paper crinkling like a death knell. He wanted to scream, to lash out, to make the feeling in his gut disappear.

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