tormented - Story 152379 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was whispering secrets, she was sure of it. The hidden room, revealed behind a wall in the library, was just another piece of the puzzle. The feeling of disquiet had grown exponentially since she'd discovered it.

The room was unremarkable, just a small, empty space. Yet, she felt a profound sense of dread, a feeling of being consumed. She could feel her palms getting sweaty.

She closed the door and returned to the library. She walked in circles, rubbing her arms. Her chest felt constricted. The house was a trap, and she was caught.

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