troubled - Story 155119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're going to play point guard, David," his basketball coach announced. David, the team's center, felt a knot tighten in his chest. Point guard? He was the anchor, the rebounder, the enforcer. Now, he needed to dribble, pass, and control the pace.

He felt a deep sense of unease. He avoided eye contact with his teammates, each of them a potential judge. He felt a familiar hollowness in his chest. He felt betrayed by his own body.

He tried to learn the new plays, but he stumbled, and his passes went astray. The familiar rhythm of the game seemed to elude him. He wanted to run away.

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