troubled - Story 155035 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was in full swing, but Jessica stood alone, awkwardly fiddling with her champagne flute. Everyone was talking about her, the "inspiring subject" of the evening's celebrations. The biography had just been released, and the compliments, the congratulations, washed over her in a suffocating wave. She didn’t recognise herself in the descriptions of her. The stories, the anecdotes - they were all wrong. A cold dread settled in her stomach as she imagined the real version of her, hidden away, forgotten. She excused herself, feeling the need for an escape.

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