tormented - Story 152520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold wind whipped through Coach Olsen's hair, mirroring the storm of anxiety raging within him. He stood alone, overlooking the football field, the scene of so many victories and defeats. He clutched the letter in his hand, the paper crinkling under his sweaty grip. He ran his thumb over the name, etched into the paper in bold print. He could feel it inside him, the feeling of pressure building.

He knew what he had to do. He looked at his watch.

He was running late.

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