tormented - Story 152738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the calendar, the red circle around the date of Mark's departure a mocking reminder. His breath hitched as he ran a hand across the smooth surface, the stark reality of the situation sinking in. He couldn't imagine a future without their weekly game nights, their inside jokes, their shared history. His chest felt constricted. His usual boisterous laughter had faded to a muffled echo, and he found himself snapping at even the smallest things.

He slammed the calendar shut, the sound echoing in the silent room. He wanted to scream.

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