The news felt like a physical blow. When she heard it, Maya had been in the library, surrounded by stacks of books. Suddenly, the words on the page blurred and swam. She gripped the edge of the table, her knuckles white, her vision swimming. The quiet hum of the fluorescent lights, the rustle of turning pages, all grated on her nerves. She wanted to scream, to lash out, but instead, she just sat there, frozen, her chest a tight, aching cage.

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