troubled - Story 155100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheerful decorations in the living room felt like a cruel joke. Every framed photo on the wall, a grinning reminder of better times, of a life he had lost. His parents' happiness was a constant, painful contrast to his own bleak existence.

He forced a smile when his mother offered him tea. His smile felt like a grimace. He felt trapped, forced to play a role he no longer believed in.

He excused himself, retreating to his room. The door closed, shutting out the world. He was alone, engulfed by the darkness.

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