tormented - Story 152950 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He replayed the moment he knew she had found the manuscript. Her face, a mask of shock and something else, something he couldn't decipher. Now, the apartment was filled with an unbearable tension. The books they had read together, lined up on the shelf, felt like accusatory eyes.

He began sleeping on the couch, the soft cushions offering no comfort. He had begun to drink, and the alcohol brought no relief. The weight of his actions pressed down on him.

He was filled with regret. He wanted to explain, but the words caught in his throat. He saw her shadow passing his door, and he wished he could disappear. The apartment, once a place of refuge, was now a chamber of dread.

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