troubled - Story 155019 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John sat on the porch swing, the rhythmic creak a mockery of his inner turmoil. His wife, a lifelong skeptic, had joined a born-again Christian church. He felt a deep sense of vulnerability, an exposed nerve. He kept clenching his fists.

The setting sun painted the sky in fiery hues, yet the beauty of the scene did not register. The weight of his anxiety, like a lead cloak, settled on his shoulders. He felt an intense need to run away.

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