troubled - Story 155073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in Sarah's chest made it hard to breathe. Her online best friend, Ethan, had just revealed his upcoming move. "Guess I'll be your neighbor soon!" his message read. A jolt, like electricity, shot through her. It wasn't the excitement she anticipated. It was a cold wave of apprehension.

She chewed on her lip, a habit she’d been trying to break. The thought of Ethan, the only one who seemed to truly *see* her, living nearby felt suffocating. Would he expect a friendship that extended beyond the screen? Would he want to… do things? Go out? She hadn’t ventured outside much in years.

Sarah's palms were sweating. She closed her eyes, trying to calm herself. Ethan was the one person she could truly be herself with, without judgement. How could she possibly face him face-to-face?

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