troubled - Story 155108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I watched the clock tick. The seconds dragged by, each one an eternity. The new hire, Jason, scribbled furiously, his brow furrowed in concentration. His attentiveness was a stark contrast to my own growing sense of disquiet. This whole situation made my muscles tighten.

I walked over to the water cooler, avoiding his gaze. The water tasted bland, and I took too much, gulping it down quickly. I wondered how many times I'd walked down this hallway, how many times I had filled my water glass. It all felt like a lifetime ago.

"So, the accounts receivable department..." I said, the words feeling forced. I sighed, rubbing my eyes.

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