tormented - Story 152774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer's words, delivered with practiced neutrality, hung in the air like a poisoned dart. "Miss Amelia receives the family fortune, a considerable sum. Mr. Samuel, you receive..." A pause. "The old family library." Samuel felt a crushing weight settle on his shoulders. He surveyed the towering shelves, the dusty tomes, the forgotten corners of the room. The silence was deafening. He hated the library. The words of those around him echoed back to him in the silence, and he felt the phantom weight of their judgement. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture clumsy and aimless.

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