tormented - Story 152630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen glowed in the darkness of his room, the only source of light. David had written some dark, personal poetry, which he'd posted on his Tumblr account. Now, his English teacher, Mr. Harrison, was a follower. David froze.

He felt exposed, vulnerable. His stomach churned. The casual, ironic tone he tried to affect in his everyday life was gone. He felt raw and fragile.

He deleted his Tumblr account that night, the act offering a small, fleeting sense of control. The feeling of being completely seen, judged, and understood, continued to haunt him.

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