"You're late," the voice on the phone crackled, impatient. Leo flinched. He hadn't slept. He couldn't. The discovery had been a punch to the gut. All his work. All his effort. Wasted. He swallowed hard, trying to steady his voice. "I... I'm finishing up some things." His words sounded hollow, even to his own ears. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous habit he couldn't break. The weight in his chest made breathing a chore.

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