He stared at the screen, a sense of disbelief washing over him. Liam’s carefully constructed future – the one he had meticulously planned – now felt unstable. His jaw tightened and the muscles in his neck felt hard and rigid. He felt like he had been punched, that the wind had been knocked out of him.

He pushed back from his desk, the chair scraping against the floor. He needed to move, to do something. He paced back and forth across the small room, his agitation growing with each step. He couldn't quite believe this was real.

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
S0.317
ness0.302
πŸ˜”0.294
😒0.272
Suppressed:
de-0.553
la-0.511
l-0.307
/-0.260
(!)-0.236