tormented - Story 152878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stolen paintings were displayed in a grand, opulent room, each one a dagger twisting in Leo's gut. He knew the gallery owner, a ruthless, charming man with a reputation for questionable practices. He felt a profound sense of powerlessness.

He found himself pacing his apartment, muttering to himself, his voice barely audible. He felt a constant headache throbbing behind his eyes. He spent hours staring at the ceiling, unable to find rest.

He went to the gallery, but as he reached the door, he couldn’t bring himself to enter. He turned and fled, the luxurious decor of the building mocking him. He found himself walking aimlessly, lost in the city, the injustice a heavy weight bearing down on him.

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