troubled - Story 155015 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the living room as I sat on the sofa. My grandmother’s confession, a recent convert to Judaism, echoed in my ears. I felt a tight ache in my chest, a physical manifestation of my internal unease.

I stared at the family photographs on the wall, each smiling face a reminder of a shared past. Now, I found myself questioning everything we thought we knew. The laughter and easy camaraderie of our family gatherings felt suddenly distant.

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