troubled - Story 155027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"He's always with me," Clara's voice was filled with a childish confidence that grated on Daniel. He stared at the drawing of a creature with one long arm, the rest of its body an amorphous blob. It was a near-perfect replica of "Stretch," Daniel's childhood friend.

He felt a sudden, intense craving for something he couldn't name. He had a sudden urge to buy something. He had to be still. His fingers fidgeted as he stood there. The memories flooded his mind, a torrent of images he had locked away for decades.

He forced a smile, murmuring some platitude to Clara. He needed to get away, to be alone. He walked back to his car, and drove, not knowing where he was going.

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