troubled - Story 155067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter crackled in Emily’s hands as she crumpled it. The crisp paper felt like sandpaper against her skin. A cold wave of despair washed over her, making her muscles tense and heavy. Her carefully curated sense of optimism had dissolved in an instant.

She looked around the library, the other students absorbed in their work. How could they be so calm? Her heart was hammering against her ribs. She couldn't understand why, after all her hard work, she had been turned down. A tear tracked down her cheek.

"It’s not fair," she whispered, the words barely audible.

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