tormented - Story 152368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card sat on the doorstep, a vibrant rectangle in a sea of grey. "Happy Birthday!" The words stung, a cruel and unwanted reminder. Emily felt her stomach clench. Her hands began to tremble as she bent to retrieve it.

The familiar scent of her home usually soothed her, but now it felt like a cage, the walls closing in. She walked through each room, a restless energy coursing through her body. The air felt thick, making it hard to breathe.

She crumpled the card, and threw it in the wastebasket, the gesture a futile attempt to erase the emptiness. Her gaze fixed on the blank television screen, mirroring the void in her own heart.

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