tormented - Story 152477 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package had arrived on a Tuesday, and today was Thursday. It sat on the dining room table, a constant reminder of the life that used to be. "Mr. David Carter." She hadn’t known David Carter, but his presence lingered in the air, a faint scent of old cigarettes and unresolved pain. Her hands shook as she prepared coffee, spilling some in the process.

She avoided the dining room, preferring to eat standing up in the kitchen. Her appetite had vanished completely. The package seemed to watch her, its silent judgment echoing in the hollow chambers of her chest.

She was starting to forget how to breathe.

She could barely see the package through her tears.

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