tormented - Story 152702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold sweat slicked down David's back as he heard Carol, the office's bubbly HR representative, talking about her childhood. The familiar ache in his jaw returned, a phantom pain from years ago. He gripped his coffee cup tighter, the ceramic cold against his clammy hands.

"Camp Clearwater was the best!" Carol declared, twirling a strand of her blonde hair. "So many fun memories!"

David froze. He knew that camp. He’d seen the lake, the cabins. The memories, unwanted, rushed back.

He forced a weak smile. "Really?" He was being drawn in, helplessly.

"Oh, you wouldn't believe it," Carol continued. "The talent shows, the hiking, the… the late-night shenanigans!" She giggled. David’s stomach twisted. He couldn’t escape this, he realized.

"I might have been there," he said, the words a dry rasp in his throat. His heart thumped against his ribs.

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