tormented - Story 152518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the gym felt thick, heavy with unspoken tension. Coach Bell clenched his jaw, the muscles in his face tight. He avoided the boy’s gaze, focusing instead on the worn basketball that sat on his desk. He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs, a frantic rhythm against the quiet.

The sound of his own breathing felt amplified in his ears. He dreaded this.

He picked up the ball and began to spin it in his hands.

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