tormented - Story 152378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The renovation was proving to be a disaster. The contractor, the delays, the mounting costs, and now... the room. Behind the master closet, a secret chamber. He crouched in the tight space, the air stale and stagnant. He felt a deep, unsettling sensation of being watched.

The room was bare, devoid of any furnishings. Only the bare studs and the rough-hewn boards. The silence in that room was absolute and made his head spin. He reached out to touch the cold, damp wall. He wanted to break something.

He stumbled backward and left the room. He felt an overwhelming urge to flee, to escape the house, to escape the crushing feeling that he was losing his mind. He needed to get out, to breathe.

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