He found the announcement tacked to the bulletin board outside Professor Chen's office. A wave of nausea washed over him, leaving him shaky. Liam ripped the paper down, crumpling it in his fist. He squeezed it tighter, the paper threatening to tear. He could hear his own frantic heartbeat in his ears. He shoved the ball of paper into his pocket and turned away, his legs suddenly heavy, each step a monumental effort. He hadn’t eaten all day.

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
S0.353
Suppressed:
la-0.803
de-0.755
a-0.407
B-0.404
l-0.354