troubled - Story 155029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sense of unease settled over him as he observed the drawing. A spindly, skeletal figure with a gaping maw. His nephew, Ethan, called it "Gnash." It was a near mirror image of "Grim," his silent companion.

He wanted to scream.

He excused himself from the room and retreated to the guest bathroom. He looked at himself in the mirror, searching for the boy he used to be. The face staring back at him was pale, the eyes wide and haunted. He ran the water and splashed his face, hoping to wash away the feeling of something awful.

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