tormented - Story 152850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked to the window, peering out into the twilight. A knot formed in his stomach. The air outside was still, eerily so. The anticipation was the worst part, that simmering certainty that the assault was coming. He could feel the familiar thrum in his bones already. His hands were shaking. He closed his eyes, took a deep, shuddering breath, and wished, with all his might, that he could just escape.

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