tormented - Story 152479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cardboard container lay on the doorstep, a unwelcome intruder in the pristine space of her new life. "Mr. Harold Finch." The man whose shadow she was trying so desperately to outrun. The man she was replacing in this apartment. The man who… well, she dared not think.

She dragged it inside.

She could barely touch it without shaking.

She left it on the floor of the hallway.

She moved through her day like a shadow. Everything was hard. Everything was wrong. She found herself clutching her chest, struggling for air.

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