tormented - Story 152557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the living room felt dull, muted, a constant reminder of the joy his roommate, Olivia, seemed to feel about the idea of a bunny. He avoided her gaze, his eyes flitting around the room, searching for a distraction. Each mention of the bunny made him feel a sense of dread.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture conveying a profound frustration. The prospect of the bunny, the constant hopping, the chewing, the droppings—it was all too much. He desperately wanted to disappear, to be alone.

He couldn't find the words to say no again. The words caught in his throat, forming a lump that threatened to choke him.

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