The air crackled with a tension that permeated his every action. He tried to focus on his work, but the dog's incessant digging in his flowerbeds made it impossible. He slammed his laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing the harshness inside him.

He was losing control. Simple tasks seemed to take all his energy. He found himself avoiding interactions, shying away from any social event.

He was starting to feel like a prisoner. The dog was the guard, keeping him in his own personal hell. He felt trapped.

He began to fantasize about the dog disappearing.

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
S0.353
Suppressed:
la-0.803
de-0.755
a-0.407
B-0.404
l-0.354