troubled - Story 155118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You’re going to be a forward now, Ethan," the hockey coach announced. Ethan, the team's defensive defenseman, felt a wave of cold wash over him. His blood seemed to run cold. He'd always thrived in the defensive zone, a master of blocking shots and preventing goals. Now he was being asked to score goals.

His usual energy and enthusiasm evaporated. He felt a pressure that he'd never experienced before. The other players' expressions were a mystery. He felt isolated in his confusion.

He tried to play offense, but he felt clumsy, uncomfortable. Every missed shot, every failed pass, felt like a personal failure, a public display of his inadequacy.

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