troubled - Story 155077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her fingers stilled on the keyboard. A notification: "Guess what? I'm moving to your city!" It was from Alex, her only friend. A feeling of internal pressure bore down on her. The joy she should have felt was completely absent.

She scrolled back through their messages, re-reading all the small moments of their digital intimacy. She had shared so much, things she hadn't dared tell anyone else. But seeing that message now, a wave of despair washed over her.

She rose from her chair and walked toward the bathroom. Looking in the mirror, she saw the worry etched onto her face. The idea of Alex seeing her in person, seeing her everyday existence... filled her with dread.

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