tormented - Story 152900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up on his screen. "Grade Posted." A chill ran down his spine. He clicked the link, his heart pounding in his chest. The number, a stark, unwelcome guest, blinked back at him. He couldn’t breathe.

He slammed the laptop shut, the abrupt sound the only expression of his turmoil. He felt a profound sense of disappointment, a deep ache in his chest. He was suddenly aware of the silence in his room, the emptiness of the space around him. He felt utterly alone, isolated by the crushing weight of his failure.

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