troubled - Story 155123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport felt like a pressure cooker. Finn paced the small, crowded gate area, his frustration mounting with each passing minute. This was not how he wanted to start the New Year. His business partner was expecting him for an important meeting. A deal that could secure his company's survival depended on it.

He checked his watch again, then again, as if the physical act of looking could speed up time. His chest constricted with each passing second, the air becoming thin and hard to breathe. He needed to be there. This was the moment he had been working towards for years.

He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He was going to fail. He felt it, a cold certainty that spread through him like ice.

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