troubled - Story 155064 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No," Sarah muttered under her breath, staring at the denial email. The words blurred before her eyes, the familiar letters seeming to dance and taunt her. She had envisioned herself in the dorms, surrounded by new friends, pursuing her degree. Now, everything felt hazy and uncertain.

She kicked the leg of her desk, a sharp, angry sting shooting up her foot. She felt a burning sensation in her throat, a choked sob threatening to erupt. She forced herself to take a deep breath, trying to calm the wild, frantic pulse thrumming in her temples.

"I don't know what to do," she said aloud, her voice barely above a whisper.

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