tormented - Story 152778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the courtroom was thick with unspoken judgements. Her sister, Genevieve, received the family's political influence, a network of power and prestige. For him, Thomas, there was the family's old, abandoned, and dilapidated orphanage. Thomas clenched his jaw, refusing to let the tears fall. The weight of expectation, the burden of a legacy he wasn't prepared for, felt crushing. He imagined his father, and the ghosts of the children who had lived in the orphanage, and felt the familiar dread creep up his spine.

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