tormented - Story 152480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ms. Clara Blackwood." The name, so similar to her own, was a constant echo, a whisper in the back of her mind. She barely remembered Clara Blackwood. She felt a cold sweat break out on her forehead. The box, she feared, held the answers to questions she didn't want to ask.

She found herself drawn to the package, unable to look away. Her pulse raced. Her heart hammered against her ribs. The apartment felt suffocating, the walls closing in. She felt trapped, a prisoner in her own home.

She didn't sleep.

She stared.

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