tormented - Story 152710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning blasted cold air, making Daniel shiver, even though he was sweating. The office felt like a tomb. He couldn't seem to focus.

He heard the words, and his heart sank. "Camp Riverbend!" It was Jessica, describing her youth. A knot formed in his stomach. He felt a wave of nausea.

He stared at his computer screen, the words swimming before his eyes. He wished he could disappear. He wished he could go back.

His breath hitched. He wanted to run, to scream, to vanish.

"Riverbend?" he croaked, the words tasting like ash in his mouth. He felt trapped.

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