tormented - Story 152539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands shook as she scrolled through her bank account. The zero balance felt like a judgment, a betrayal of all her hopes and plans. Sarah couldn't breathe.

She thought of the future she would never have. The classes she wouldn't attend. The friends she wouldn't meet. The work she wouldn't do. A knot formed in her stomach and wouldn’t unwind.

She started seeing her reflection everywhere: in shop windows, in the dark lenses of strangers’ sunglasses. Her face was gaunt, her eyes bloodshot. She hated the face she saw.

She couldn't remember the last time she’d smiled.

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