troubled - Story 155040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked aimlessly, the book pressed against his chest. He felt exposed, stripped bare. The biography, a glossy testament to a life he didn't recognise, seemed to follow him. Every glance, every whisper, every fleeting interaction was now tainted by this manufactured persona. The city lights blurred through his unshed tears. The bustling crowds, once a source of comfort, now felt like a judgment. He craved the anonymity he had lost, the right to exist unseen. He felt an intense pull to be alone, to disappear.

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