The air was thick with the scent of pizza and cheap cologne. Thomas stood awkwardly by the arcade games, feeling the eyes of Liam's friends. He’d told Liam he was busy, but he was here, somehow. And the guilt was eating at him.

He knew Anna was at Maya's party, the more intimate gathering. He knew he should be there. He felt the sting of regret with every passing minute. He was stuck, unable to move.

He pushed away from the wall. He needed to go. He needed to be anywhere but here.

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
S0.353
Suppressed:
la-0.803
de-0.755
a-0.407
B-0.404
l-0.354