tormented - Story 152488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house had always been a source of comfort for him. It was the only constant he had. Now, it was just…gone. He'd stood there, watching the machines tear into the roof, and it had felt like a piece of his soul was being ripped away.

He sat on his bed, the covers pulled up to his chin. The house was his family, his memories, his whole life. He felt an intense ache. He stared at a crack on the ceiling, unable to move.

He just wished that it was all a bad dream.

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