tormented - Story 152386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He couldn’t look at the other man. Or rather, he couldn’t look at *him* and the other man at the same time. The casual, almost friendly, tone of the other man, a guy named David, made the reality sting even more. They'd both been with "Mark" for months.

He took a slow, deep breath, trying to regain some semblance of composure. But the air felt thin, his chest constricted. He felt an intense need to escape.

He’d driven to the park to meet the other man, hoping for answers, but all he'd found was a confirmation of his worst fears. He couldn't speak, he couldn’t move. He just wanted it all to stop. He abruptly turned and walked away, not even bothering to offer a goodbye. The knot in his stomach tightened with each step.

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