troubled - Story 155059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold, sterile environment of the pawn shop did nothing to soothe Maria's internal conflict. She felt hollow, adrift, as though she were a ghost in her own life. The relentless pressure of the circumstances was a heavy burden to bear. She felt an invisible weight pulling her down.

The ring. A flash of light caught her eye. It was unmistakable. It was her grandmother's engagement ring. It was a constant reminder of what she had lost. Tears welled in her eyes, blurring her vision.

"Please... I need to buy that." Her voice was a shaky whisper, barely above a breath. The shop assistant, a woman with dyed-blonde hair, raised an eyebrow. Maria felt a fresh wave of humiliation.

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