tormented - Story 152438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The award ceremony was a blur. Michael watched the young chef, claiming his recipe for "The Golden Butter Cake," receive the golden trophy. It was his. His father's. A recipe passed down through generations. He wanted to scream.

The ceremony went on, he couldn't bring himself to talk to anyone. He just stood there, his face ashen, and the lights reflecting off the tears that were starting to form. His hands wouldn't stop shaking. The air felt thin, difficult to breathe. He excused himself and slipped out the back door, needing to be anywhere but there.

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