troubled - Story 155098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the cramped apartment felt thick and heavy, like a physical presence. The stale smell of old cigarette smoke clung to the curtains. He lit another one, the flame flickering in the dim light, momentarily illuminating his haggard face.

His mother bustled around the tiny kitchen, humming a cheerful tune that grated on his already raw nerves. He wished she would stop. He just wanted to be left alone.

He couldn't meet her eyes. The guilt was suffocating. He’d failed.

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