tormented - Story 152558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering light of the laptop screen seemed to mock Mark. He slammed it shut, the sound echoing in the quiet apartment. His roommate, Chloe, was currently out, but the thought of her return, bringing with it yet another enthusiastic pronouncement for a guinea pig, caused his pulse to race.

He felt the sudden heat rising in his cheeks, his breath coming in shallow gasps. The very air in the apartment felt thick, almost suffocating. He needed an escape, but there was nowhere to go.

He ran his fingers through his hair, tugging at the strands in a silent gesture of desperation. He felt completely overwhelmed, trapped in a situation he didn't know how to resolve.

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