She forced a smile, the muscles in her face aching. The dinner party buzzed around her, a cacophony of meaningless chatter. She scanned the room, searching for an escape.

Her eyes landed on him, across the crowded space. He was talking animatedly, laughing with someone she didn't know. He hadn't seen her yet. She wanted to disappear.

He finally looked up, his eyes meeting hers. A flicker of recognition, a shadow of something unreadable, crossed his face. The laughter died in her throat.

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