The bus ride home felt longer than usual. The book was clutched tightly in Mariaโ€™s bag, a constant, heavy weight. She'd accidentally stumbled upon it in the local bookstore, tucked away among other "inspirational stories." A life, meticulously documented, yet utterly devoid of the truth. A dull ache throbbed behind her eyes. As the bus rattled along, she watched the streetlights flicker past, each one a fleeting glimpse into a world she no longer understood.

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:
๐Ÿ˜ž0.343
S0.317
ness0.302
๐Ÿ˜”0.294
๐Ÿ˜ข0.272
Suppressed:
de-0.553
la-0.511
l-0.307
/-0.260
(!)-0.236