tormented - Story 152565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, the shrill sound making him jump. He stared at the screen, heart hammering against his ribs. It was from Emily. After all this time. He couldn't. He didn't answer. He just let the machine pick it up. He was at Liam's party. He knew she was at Maya's party.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging. He felt the familiar rising tide of nausea. He took a few deep breaths, hoping to regain some semblance of control. The party went on around him, yet he felt stranded on an island.

He walked over to the bathroom and looked in the mirror. He looked like he felt. He thought of all the promises he had made.

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