He buried his face in his hands, muffling the sob that escaped. The news had hit him like a physical punch. It was a dark, consuming depression. He looked at the window, and every single thing looked gray.

He paced his small room, his mind racing. He struggled to breathe. He wanted to scream, to cry, to break something, anything to relieve this pressure. Nothing seemed to work.

He closed his eyes, his body trembling. He saw his future, and the path ahead was dark and twisted. He had no control over anything. He was alone, and he felt as if the world was crumbling around him.

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
S0.353
Suppressed:
la-0.803
de-0.755
a-0.407
B-0.404
l-0.354