tormented - Story 152786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, the listing website's cheery layout mocking him. His childhood home. The place where he'd felt safe. The place where he'd learned the meaning of fear. The place he'd been forced to leave. The smile on the real estate agent in the virtual tour felt like a personal affront.

He felt a wave of dizziness, the room tilting around him. He gripped the edge of the desk, fighting to stay upright. His hands were slick with sweat. He needed air, needed to be away from the images, the words, the false promise of a new beginning.

He stumbled out of the apartment, the door slamming shut behind him. The noise startled him. He walked aimlessly, his mind a jumble of fragmented memories, a kaleidoscope of pain. The city, usually a source of comfort, suddenly felt cold and threatening.

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