troubled - Story 155120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of the track filled the air. "You're running the 100-meter dash, Amelia," her track coach said. Amelia, who has run the 800 for years, felt her heart lurch. The 100-meter dash? Pure speed. Not endurance. She'd always been the steady one, the long-distance runner.

Her stomach felt like ice. The thought of sprinting, of explosive power, filled her with a strange dread. She watched the sprinters train, their muscles rippling.

She felt detached from her own body. The familiar camaraderie of the team seemed distant. She wished she was invisible.

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