troubled - Story 155075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara stared at the screen, heart hammering against her ribs. Her online friend, Daniel, had announced he was relocating. "Can't wait to explore the city! Maybe we can meet up sometime," he'd written. She felt a surge of panic, a coldness spreading through her limbs.

She had built a world with Daniel, a safe haven of shared jokes and confidences. But it was a world built on carefully chosen words and curated images. The thought of him witnessing her reality, the quiet life she had constructed, filled her with a profound unease.

She got up and walked to the window, looking out at the city lights. The vibrant energy felt alien, oppressive. She felt a growing sense of imprisonment. She didn't want him to see this.

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