tormented - Story 152820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold wind whipped at his face as he stood on the bridge, staring down at the churning water. He clutched the railing, his knuckles white. The city lights blurred through his tears.

He had tried to ignore it, to bury it, but it was impossible. The past had risen, a persistent, unwelcome guest. He was trapped.

He felt a hand on his shoulder. He flinched, turning around. It was her. The air seemed to solidify around him, trapping him in a suffocating moment.

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