troubled - Story 155016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email on his phone, the words "I've decided to become a member of the Church of Scientology" blurring slightly. His sister’s message hung in the air, a silent accusation. A cold wave washed over him. He felt suddenly disconnected from the world.

He went to the window and stared out at the city below, its lights twinkling like distant stars. He imagined all his sister’s friends, all looking at him with pity. He felt utterly alone.

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