tormented - Story 152389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the champagne bubbles that did it. The forced joviality of the dinner party, celebrating a promotion he'd just received, with "Sarah" on his arm, felt all wrong. Then the other woman, named Amelia, had casually strolled in, and the world had shifted.

He choked on the champagne, a harsh, violent cough. He excused himself, the room spinning around him. The happy chatter of the other guests grated on his ears. He needed to get away, to find some air, to escape the suffocating weight of the truth.

He stumbled out of the house, the night air a cold slap to his face. He felt like he was suffocating, as though his lungs were collapsing. He needed to be alone. He walked, and walked, and walked.

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