tormented - Story 152647 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the office felt muted, desaturated, as if a filter had been applied to her perception. Maria felt a deep, pervasive weariness. She leaned back in her chair, the leather cool against her back, but offered no comfort.

She kept replaying the scene she'd witnessed: the hushed conversation, the guarded expressions, the furtive glances. The feeling of being an outsider, watching a tragedy unfold. She was just a cog, and now she felt like the gears were about to grind to a halt.

She picked up her phone, her fingers hovering over her husband's number, but hesitated. How could she tell him? How could she tell anyone?

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