tormented - Story 152645 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just breathe," David muttered to himself, struggling to maintain his composure. He tried to focus on his work, but the words on the documents blurred into an unintelligible mess. He closed his eyes, took a shaky breath, and tried again. No luck.

He gripped the edge of the desk, his knuckles white. The air felt thin, like he was gasping for it. His heart pounded in his chest, a frantic drumbeat against his ribs. He felt trapped, cornered, unable to escape the suffocating weight of the situation.

He wanted to scream, to lash out, to do anything to break free of the mounting pressure. He was so close to finally buying his own house, his own life.

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