tormented - Story 152795 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed to shrink around her, closing in with each passing day. The air inside felt thick, stagnant. She couldn't eat, couldn't sleep. Every day felt the same. She started leaving the house less, afraid of what might be waiting for her outside.

She tried to rationalize her feelings. It was just a house. It was just a tragedy that happened a long time ago. Still, she couldn’t shake the sense of an unseen presence. She would look in the mirror and didn't recognise herself.

She took to carrying a small, silver cross around with her, clutching it in her hand as a means of comfort. It didn't work.

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