tormented - Story 152408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of dust and roses was overpowering. Olivia had barely spoken to her brother, Daniel, since they arrived. They walked through the house like strangers, each consumed by their own private battles.

Daniel, she knew, was struggling too. She saw it in the way he avoided her gaze, in the way he chewed on his lip, in the way he kept to himself. The house was a constant reminder of their grandmother’s disapproval, a burden that seemed to grow heavier with each passing hour.

He closed the door on the master bedroom, the door closed again on all of them, the weight of their legacy as heavy as the room's furniture.

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