troubled - Story 155057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless tick of the clock on the pawn shop wall echoed the frantic beat of Liam's heart. He felt a constant unease, a jitteriness that wouldn’t let him sit still. He felt like he was constantly moving. He ran a hand through his hair, trying to find some semblance of calm.

There it was. The ring. His grandmother’s engagement ring, sparkling innocently amidst the other discarded items. He'd never seen it here before. He felt a hot flush of anger, then a wave of crushing sadness.

"I... I want to look at that." His voice was choked, the words catching in his throat. The shop assistant, a young woman with a bored expression, slowly opened the display case. Liam felt a surge of helplessness.

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