tormented - Story 152550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the account, the carefully curated image of his son, and felt a sudden lurch in his stomach. The secret account, "NightOwlNate," a carefully crafted persona, was a stark contrast to the quiet, introverted boy he knew.

He paced the living room, the polished hardwood floor reflecting the flickering light of the lamp. His heart raced, each beat a frantic drum against his ribs. He felt a deep sense of unease, a gnawing anxiety that wouldn’t let him be.

He felt a strong urge to confront his son, to demand answers. But a paralyzing fear kept him rooted to the spot. He knew a storm was coming, and he wasn't sure he was ready to face it. The silence of the house was a fragile thing, poised to shatter at any moment.

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