tormented - Story 152649 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. A gust of wind knocked the air from her lungs. She stared at the email, the words blurring, refusing to be deciphered. Her throat constricted. She was unable to swallow.

The office, once a place of routine and predictability, now felt like a cage. She couldn't bear to be there. She gathered her things, her movements jerky and robotic. She barely noticed the curious glances of her colleagues.

Her head swirled, and the world tilted precariously. She had to get out, to escape the suffocating presence of uncertainty, the crushing weight of the unknown.

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