troubled - Story 155069 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the small coffee shop felt deafening. Chloe re-read the email, each word a fresh wound. She took a sip of her latte, the warm liquid doing nothing to dispel the chill that had settled in her bones. She ran a hand over her forehead, pushing back the stray strands of hair.

Her carefully constructed dreams were shattered. The barista called her name to collect her drink, and she barely registered the sound. She felt disconnected, as if she were viewing her life from a great distance. She felt the tears welling up in her eyes.

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