troubled - Story 155127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant announcements began to grate on Alex's nerves. He was supposed to be presenting his research at the conference. Years of work, countless hours of preparation, all culminating in this presentation. Now, everything was hanging in the balance.

He pulled out a crumpled printout of his slides and ran through them one last time. His mind raced, his heart hammering against his ribs. He felt a deep sense of inadequacy, as if he was already failing.

He sat back, his breath coming in short, shallow gasps. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something.

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