tormented - Story 152708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the computers, the rustling of papers, the low murmur of conversations – all the usual office sounds – suddenly became a deafening cacophony for Oliver. He flinched as he heard the laughter.

"Camp Willow Creek was paradise!" It was Maria, from the IT department, sharing a story. Oliver felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

He gripped the edge of his desk, the wood digging into his palms. His face felt hot. He could feel the blood pounding in his ears.

He couldn’t look at Maria. He couldn’t face this. He had to.

"Willow Creek?" he asked, the words forced through his constricted throat. The world was closing in.

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