tormented - Story 152703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clock ticked. Each second was a hammer blow against Emily’s skull. She stared at the spreadsheet, the numbers blurring, meaningless. Then, from across the open-plan office, she heard it.

“Yeah, Camp Shadowbrook was amazing!” Ben, from accounting, was regaling a small group with stories. She'd been avoiding him. Now, she had no choice.

Her throat constricted. Her hands trembled. She wanted to scream. "Shadowbrook?" she choked out, her voice barely above a whisper.

Ben turned, his face brightening. “Oh, yeah! Did you go too? You look familiar!”

Emily felt a surge of panic. A vivid picture of the camp's lake, and the events that unfolded there, flooded her mind. It felt like a trap. She wanted to run.

"I..." she began, her voice cracking. Her voice failed her.

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