troubled - Story 155020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had hit her like a physical blow. Her daughter, a free spirit, had taken a vow of silence to a Carmelite order. She felt a hollowness in her chest, a profound sense of loss.

She walked through the garden, her hand brushing the leaves of the rose bushes. The vibrant colors and sweet fragrances seemed to mock her sorrow. She felt a profound sense of disquiet, as though the world had tilted on its axis.

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