tormented - Story 152639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He discovered the letter in a box of his mother's belongings. The letter was addressed to her brother, filled with grievances never spoken. He was struck by the simmering resentment, the unspoken anger.

He paced the room, unable to sit still. His hands were clenched into fists. He felt a constant agitation, a prickling sensation under his skin. He felt a deep, unsettled feeling that made his stomach churn.

The words echoed in his mind, each sentence a testament to a broken relationship. He felt the weight of unspoken burdens. The room seemed filled with invisible shadows. He felt a sense of profound sadness, a crushing weight.

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