tormented - Story 152490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been back in twenty years. He'd built a new life, a new family, a new world. But now the old house was calling, or rather, the demolition was. He saw the house and his hands went cold.

He sat on the curb, his back against a rusting lamppost. He couldn't look. He wished he'd visited more often. He wished he'd cared more.

He had promised himself that he wouldn’t cry. But the tears were streaming down his face. He felt like a child, lost and alone.

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