troubled - Story 155122 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport buzzed with the usual chaos, but for Sarah, it was a soundtrack to despair. She clutched the worn photograph in her hand, the edges softened with time. Her father. His memorial service was today. The delay was an agonizing twist of fate.

A wave of nausea washed over her. She stumbled to the nearest restroom, the fluorescent lights amplifying her discomfort. The tile felt cold against her forehead as she leaned against the wall.

She imagined the faces of her family, their grief amplified by her absence. She’d promised to be there, to offer what comfort she could. Now, she was stuck in this metal and glass purgatory, a prisoner of circumstance.

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