tormented - Story 152648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that did nothing to alleviate the internal chaos. Robert tapped his pen against the desk, the rhythm a frantic beat against the mounting dread. The information had been confirmed. The company was being sold, and his job was in jeopardy.

He couldn't sit still. He paced back and forth, the confines of his office suddenly feeling suffocating. He needed to be active, to do something, anything to ward off the paralyzing fear that threatened to consume him.

The anxiety was a physical weight. He knew that the only way to get through this was to face it. But the thought of it made his head pound and his stomach churn.

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