tormented - Story 152967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was on a ripped-out page from a diary, clutched in her husband, Thomas', hand, after he returned from a meeting. "Learn to sail." "See the world." "Be free." Her vision swam. She watched him, his face a mask of controlled composure.

She felt a wave of nausea roll through her. She felt like an imposter. They had built a life on commitment. They had been loyal and loving. She felt a burning pressure on her chest.

He didn't notice her staring. He put the list back in his pocket and walked into the living room, flipping on the television. She followed, but didn't speak. The light of the screen illuminated his silhouette, and she felt a vast distance between them. She was standing at the edge of some chasm.

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