tormented - Story 152905 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you serious?" Mark sputtered, his voice cracking. He'd been looking forward to a long life of attending Alumni events. He read and reread the email, hoping the words would change. They didn't. His throat tightened, making it hard to swallow.

He slammed his fist on the table, the sound echoing through the empty coffee shop. The server flinched, but Mark didn't notice. He was consumed by a knot of fury and dread. The world had tilted on its axis.

He stormed out of the coffee shop, not bothering to pay for his latte. He didn't know where he was going, but he needed to move, to burn off this agonizing energy. He felt as if he could explode.

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