tormented - Story 152736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're… really doing it?" The words hung in the air, heavy and fragile. He’d thought he’d be prepared, but seeing Emily pack her belongings, seeing the boxes stacked high, the realization was a visceral punch to the gut. His stomach clenched. The apartment, once filled with their shared laughter and comfortable silences, felt alien and cold. He watched her fold a favorite sweater, his own hands itching with the urge to reach out, to stop her, to somehow make this not happen. He couldn’t.

He swallowed hard, the muscles in his throat constricting. He turned away, unable to meet her gaze, the world tilting precariously.

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