tormented - Story 152566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Just one more hour,” he mumbled to himself, the words catching in his throat. David forced a smile, chatting with some of Liam’s friends at the bowling alley. He was supposed to be at Chloe’s karaoke, now.

He felt like a fraud. He couldn't shake the feeling of being pulled in two different directions. His mind swirled with conflicting thoughts. He downed the rest of his beer. He needed something to steady him.

The lights of the bowling alley seemed to blur, the sounds of pins crashing muffled. He’d made a mistake, a huge one, and now he was paying the price. All he wanted was the day to be over.

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