troubled - Story 155113 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold sweat prickled across her skin as she watched the other gymnasts practice their routines. "You're switching to the uneven bars, Lena," her coach had said, her tone devoid of emotion. Lena, a floor exercise specialist, stood still, her heart hammering against her ribs like a trapped bird. Bars? The idea was dizzying, terrifying.

The high-flying moves, the twisting, the precise coordination – it was all a foreign language to her. She watched the older girls gracefully glide from bar to bar. Then the thought of her own body being up there, a clumsy, uncoordinated mess, made her feel sick.

She avoided eye contact with her teammates, her usual sparkle gone. Every muscle in her body ached with a strange, unfamiliar tension. She wished she could just disappear.

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