tormented - Story 152507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small space of her kitchen seemed to close in on her. The barking, so persistent, so intrusive, had become an unwelcome soundtrack to her life. She found herself snapping at her husband, blaming him for the mess.

She stopped going to the gym. The dog had chewed up her new running shoes, so she had stopped. She was so angry at the world.

She felt pinned down, anchored by a problem she couldn’t solve. She knew she had to leave.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the noise, to find a moment of peace. It was hopeless.

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