troubled - Story 155096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself wandering the streets at night, the shadows offering a deceptive anonymity. The cold air bit at his exposed skin, but he didn't feel it. He felt numb. His mind was a battlefield.

He’d tried to explain his situation to his parents, but the words caught in his throat. He couldn't articulate the tangled mess of feelings that consumed him. The words became lodged.

He stopped at a park bench, the darkness swallowing him whole. He felt utterly alone, stranded in a world he no longer recognized. He was drowning.

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