tormented - Story 152908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The closing of the university was a personal betrayal. For Maria, this college wasn't just a school, it was home. The news brought a wave of hot fury that burned up her insides. Her carefully laid plans were now ash.

She couldn't sleep. She couldn't eat. She could barely stand. She sat on her bed, staring at her reflection in the mirror, and the reflection felt foreign.

She kept replaying the events, hoping to find some kind of error, some kind of mistake. Then, she threw her phone against the wall. The screen shattered, and a single tear rolled down her cheek.

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