He replayed the detective’s words in his head, over and over, until they became a mantra. The house was tainted. It was irredeemable. He felt the weight of the past pressing down on him. He felt like he was suffocating.

He wanted to sell. He wanted to run. He felt trapped. He wanted to scream. He knew he had to leave, but he couldn't bring himself to do it. The house had him in its grip. He began to feel like he was losing it. He was no longer himself. The house had stolen him away.

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
S0.353
Suppressed:
la-0.803
de-0.755
a-0.407
B-0.404
l-0.354