The drive home from her cousin's announcement had been silent. Mariaโ€™s hands gripped the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles were white. Her usually stoic father, now a Hare Krishna devotee, had spoken with a strange serenity. She felt a prickly sensation at the back of her neck.

She pulled into the driveway, the gravel crunching beneath her tires. The world felt different, somehow smaller, now. The comforting weight of the familiar had vanished.

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:
๐Ÿ˜ž0.343
S0.317
ness0.302
๐Ÿ˜”0.294
๐Ÿ˜ข0.272
Suppressed:
de-0.553
la-0.511
l-0.307
/-0.260
(!)-0.236