tormented - Story 152409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stood on the porch, the setting sun painting the sky in fiery hues, but he saw none of it. He felt trapped. His sister, Chloe, was bustling inside, organizing and cleaning. He could only stand there, unable to enter.

He felt a pressure in his chest, a tight knot that refused to loosen. The sight of the house, once a haven, now brought on waves of anxiety.

His hands shook as he lit a cigarette. He inhaled deeply, the nicotine a temporary distraction from the internal storm. He wanted to scream, to shatter the fragile peace, but all he could do was stand there, frozen, the weight of his feelings a crushing burden.

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