tormented - Story 152867 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school hallways echoed with the ghost of laughter. Ms. Greene tried to focus on the lesson plan, but the faces, the accusations, the memories, swirled around her like a vortex. A gift arrived at her door. A simple, framed photograph, showing a group of students in a class outing. "We miss you - The 8th Grade Class."

The image was a punch to the gut. She gripped the frame, her knuckles white. The faces, once so bright, now seemed to mock her. A wave of nausea surged through her, and she stumbled backward, her breath coming in ragged gasps. The silence of the house pressed in, suffocating.

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