tormented - Story 152737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery blurred before her eyes, the bright hues mocking the grey cloud that seemed to have settled over her. Each piece, a testament to creativity and connection, now felt like a cruel joke. Liam’s announcement, a few days ago, that he was moving to Europe had left her feeling disconnected from reality, like everything good was slipping through her fingers.

She wandered aimlessly through the exhibits, the hushed tones of the other visitors amplifying the relentless thrumming in her ears. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes, a prelude to tears she desperately fought back.

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