tormented - Story 152564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, I haven't seen her," Mark muttered, avoiding eye contact. He knew what they were thinking. His voice was flat, devoid of emotion. He was at Liam’s party, surrounded by friends who he knew knew of the other party. He could feel their gazes, a constant scrutiny.

He wandered towards the buffet table, picking at a sandwich he didn’t want. He hadn't seen Emily all day. He'd thought maybe she'd call. Maybe she'd choose. Neither had happened.

He wanted to disappear. The music, the laughter, everything was amplifying the hollow ache in his chest. He felt caught in a tightening circle, the walls closing in. He felt like his head might explode.

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