troubled - Story 155117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pool water seemed exceptionally cold. "You’re on freestyle, Sasha," her swimming coach stated. Sasha, a butterfly specialist, felt a shiver run down her spine. Freestyle? A totally different stroke. This felt like a betrayal.

She watched the other swimmers glide through the water, their movements efficient, their faces relaxed. She felt clumsy and awkward in comparison, her usual rhythm disrupted.

She tried to focus, to listen to her coach's instructions, but the words seemed to fade, as if lost underwater. She felt out of sync, as though her body was a machine that wasn't properly calibrated.

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