tormented - Story 152465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, his grandmother’s wedding portrait, stared at him from across the room. His sister, oblivious, chattered on about the potential auction value. The picture, which had hung in their family home for decades, felt like a vital organ about to be removed.

He excused himself from the dinner table, claiming a headache. In the safety of his bedroom, he locked the door and sank onto the bed, burying his face in the pillows. The scent of lavender, the same as his grandmother's perfume, offered no solace.

He felt a deep, pervasive weariness. He wanted to scream, to lash out, to stop this relentless march towards loss. The silence in the room amplified the internal chaos, each beat of his heart echoing his fear.

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