tormented - Story 152794 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The investigator's words echoed in his mind, a constant, nagging reminder. "Homicide," the man had said, matter-of-factly. "Happened right here." He could practically feel the chill of the victim’s final moments seeping into the very foundations of the house.

He found himself wandering the halls at all hours, tracing the outlines of doorways and windows, as if searching for something he couldn't name. He knew he was losing it. He was seeing faces in the wallpaper, hearing whispers in the wind whistling through the cracks. He was sleeping very little.

He tried to distract himself with work, but his mind kept wandering. He was a writer, but he couldn't write. The words wouldn't come. His life was becoming a blank page.

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