tormented - Story 152664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The steel doors, a menacing wall, held him captive. Richard was fighting the urge to scream. The metallic tang of fear filled his mouth. He squeezed his eyes shut, trying to conjure a sense of calm, but only the image of his unfinished paperwork at his desk filled his mind. The thought made his chest tighten.

He bounced on the balls of his feet, unable to stand still. He ran a hand over his face, feeling the stubble prickle against his skin. He wanted to look confident, to project an air of composure, but the tremor in his voice when he spoke gave away his inner state.

"This is ridiculous," he muttered, his voice barely a whisper. The seconds stretched, each one an agonizing 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