tormented - Story 152473 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell chimed, a brittle sound that shattered the quiet. Sarah froze, her hand still hovering over the coffee cup. It was probably just a delivery, she reasoned, but a prickling sensation crawled up her spine. The package, she knew, would be for "Mr. Arthur Finch." The previous resident. The man who had… well, who had lived here before everything went wrong.

She didn't open the door.

She watched the shadows lengthen across the patterned wallpaper as she waited.

After the delivery person left, Sarah unlocked the door with a trembling hand, retrieving the rectangular package. She left it on the entry table.

She retreated to the bedroom.

She felt a shudder go through her.

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