tormented - Story 152974 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on David's back as he pretended to weed, the neighbor's proposal a fresh wound. Each tug of the grass felt like a release of tension, a fleeting moment of control. He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the stillness of the afternoon. The thought of losing any of his garden felt like a failure.

His gaze flickered to the spot the neighbor indicated, now a vacant space. His stomach twisted into a knot. He glanced at the fence, at the roses, each one a testament to his care. He felt a desperate urge to run, to escape the impending change. He doubled over, the world spinning.

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