troubled - Story 155036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“But it’s *wrong*,” Michael muttered, staring at the page. The words blurred before his eyes. He’d found the book in his local library, placed prominently on a display. This was his *life* they were talking about, but the words felt like they belonged to someone else. The narrative painted him as a hero, someone he certainly didn't feel like. A bitter laugh escaped his lips. He slammed the book shut, the sound sharp in the quiet reading room. He felt his hands begin to shake.

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