tormented - Story 152746 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I need a drink," she rasped, her voice rough, as she stared at the mess next door. The tree lay sprawled across Mrs. Davies' garden, its roots torn from the earth like open wounds. The sight triggered an onslaught of sensations: a tightening in her chest, a ringing in her ears, a compulsion to run.

She grabbed her coat, not even bothering to look at herself in the mirror. As she poured the whiskey, her hands shook so badly that she spilled some on the counter. She swiped it up with a kitchen towel, the action frantic and hurried.

She thought about getting out. Escape. She had to leave. Before it consumed her.

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