tormented - Story 152699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the office was thick with tension. He'd walk the halls, feeling the weight of the competition, and the silent judgments of those around him. He could almost feel the eyes on him.

He’d stopped sleeping, tossing and turning through the night, his mind a whirlwind of possibilities and what-ifs. He tried to stay positive but found that the constant anxiety was wearing him down.

He began forgetting things. Important dates, appointments, even simple tasks. His performance at work suffered as a result. His normally sharp mind felt clouded, and the fear of failure gnawed at him.

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