troubled - Story 155095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence during dinner was a thick, oppressive blanket. Her parents exchanged pointed glances, a silent conversation passing between them that she couldn't interpret, but she understood. The unspoken words were worse than any condemnation.

She pushed the food around her plate, the mashed potatoes congealing into a cold, lumpy mass. Her appetite vanished. She could feel her heartbeat in her temples, a frantic drumbeat against the silence.

After dinner, she locked herself in her room, the small space feeling both a prison and a sanctuary. She sank to the floor, pulling her knees to her chest. A fresh wave of despair washed over her.

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