tormented - Story 152948 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in her hand. The words on the screen, detailing her perceived faults and secrets, echoed in her mind. He was at work, she knew, but the distance didn’t ease the sensation of being exposed. She didn't trust herself.

She took a long, hot shower, scrubbing at her skin as if she could wash away the taint of his words. She saw herself as he saw her. The warmth didn't help.

She began to avoid the places they frequented, the places that held her memories. She spent hours in bed, staring at the ceiling, the phantom weight of his gaze pressing down on her. The silence in the apartment felt oppressive.

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