tormented - Story 152487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay open on the kitchen counter. A demolition notice. He’d thrown it across the room. He felt nothing but a hollow emptiness.

He walked through the empty rooms, touching the walls, feeling the ghosts of his childhood. He had known, of course, that this would happen, but the reality of it was like a knife twisting.

The silence was deafening. He wandered the halls, his bare feet echoing on the hardwood floors, as the world shrank. He felt like he was falling.

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