tormented - Story 152898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The printout felt like lead in her hands. She couldn't shake the feeling that she had failed everyone. Her parents, her friends, herself. The low score confirmed her deepest fear: that she wasn't good enough. She stood, heart hammering, and walked to the nearest trash can.

The world seemed to shrink around her, the vibrant colors of the day fading to gray. She barely registered the people around her, their cheerful chatter a distant, irrelevant noise. She kept seeing the number staring back at her.

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