tormented - Story 152897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“How could this have happened?” whispered Chloe, her voice shaky. The feedback on her presentation was scathing, a vicious assault on her self-worth. She re-read the comments again and again, each barb slicing deeper. The room around her seemed to tilt, the familiar classroom now an alien and hostile place.

She found herself avoiding the gaze of her classmates, embarrassed and ashamed. The easy camaraderie they had shared was gone, replaced by a wall of perceived judgement. The weight of it all made her want to retreat, to hide from the world.

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