The world felt muted. The vibrant colors of the campus, the lively conversations of students, the music from the open windows of the dorm rooms - all of it seemed to fade into a dull, grey haze. Noah found himself struggling to focus on his classes, the lectures feeling like a distant murmur.

He reread the email again and again, as if the words might magically change. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something. Instead, he sat there, frozen, his body heavy, his muscles tense.

He started isolating himself, avoiding social gatherings, refusing to answer calls. He couldn't face the questions, the pity, the judgement. The constant hum of anxiety built inside him.

He was a mess.

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