tormented - Story 152380 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hated the new house. Everything was unsettling. He found it in the spare bedroom, a hidden room concealed behind a flimsy partition.

The air inside was stale, and the space was suffocatingly small. It was completely empty. He felt a strange pressure build in his chest. His breath quickened. He felt as though something heavy were resting on his shoulders. He felt a desperate need to escape.

He slammed the door shut and ran from the room, needing to get as far away as possible. He couldn't shake the feeling that he was no longer alone.

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