tormented - Story 152562 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at her reflection, the vibrant lipstick a stark contrast to the paleness of her skin. Sarah was late, again. The guilt was a heavy weight, pressing down on her chest. Two birthdays. Two friends. Both expecting her. Each a different shade of joy that now seemed impossible to reach.

Her fingers trembled as she picked up her phone. Texting would be a disaster. The words would just come out wrong. She closed her eyes, remembering the meticulous planning, the shared laughter. Everything felt fractured, broken into a million irritating shards.

She couldn't breathe. Her apartment, once a haven, now felt like a prison. The soft chime of the doorbell made her jump. Should she answer? Where was she supposed to go?

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