tormented - Story 152810 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been to work in days. The discovery of his half-sister had left a hollow in his stomach. The world, previously vibrant and full of possibility, was now muted, gray. The apartment felt dark, even in the midday sun.

He stared at the unopened mail piling up on the table, each envelope a reminder of the life he was supposed to be living. A sense of profound weariness settled over him, a heavy cloak he couldn’t seem to shed.

He walked to the window, the city sprawling out before him. The noise, the activity, the sheer volume of human lives… it was all just too much. He longed for stillness, for quiet. For an escape he couldn't find.

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