tormented - Story 152706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office coffee machine sputtered and hissed, a sound that grated on Leo's nerves. He needed caffeine, but the thought of facing anyone, of engaging in any kind of small talk, was unbearable. He stood in a corner as he watched the office.

He heard a voice. "Camp Starlight was fantastic!" It was Amy from the design team, sharing memories with a new employee. Leo felt his pulse quicken. The name sent a jolt of shock through him.

He gripped the counter, his knuckles white. The memories… they were so sharp, so real. He shut his eyes, trying to make the voice go away.

He opened them slowly. He felt the cold sweat on his palms. He couldn't hide. He couldn't run.

"Starlight?" he asked, his voice shaking. He could not run.

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