troubled - Story 155011 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of dishes in the sink echoed in the otherwise silent kitchen. Sarah stared out the window, the rain blurring the leaves into streaks of green and brown. Her mother’s words – “I’m becoming a Buddhist” – kept replaying in her mind, a discordant melody. It wasn’t the what, exactly, but the *why* that gnawed at her. Why now, after a lifetime of Sunday services and Christmas carols?

She gripped the cold porcelain of the counter. A tremor ran through her, leaving her hands icy. Had she missed something? Had she failed her mother? Her own faith felt suddenly fragile, like a cobweb caught in a gale.

Emotion: troubled

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.20 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.81

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion troubled. 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 troubled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the troubled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the troubled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😞`	0.343
`S`	0.317
`ness`	0.302
`😔`	0.294
`😢`	0.272

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.553
`la`	-0.511
`l`	-0.307
`/`	-0.260
`(!)`	-0.236