tormented - Story 152489 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was stifling. Her brother, who had inherited the house, kept glancing at her, but she just stared out the window. She couldn't face him. She couldn't face the house.

She could picture herself there, as a young girl. The feeling of safety, and love, was now ashes. The drive to the demolition site was long. The closer they got, the tighter her chest became.

When they finally arrived, she couldn't get out of the car. She buried her face in her hands and began to cry, her body shaking with suppressed sobs.

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