troubled - Story 155128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling airport seemed to shrink around Lena as she sank into a chair. The news had been so recent, so raw. Her best friend’s surprise birthday party. Her sister had promised to be there. Now, the delay felt like a personal affront.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the noise, but the images kept flooding her mind. The laughter. The surprise on her friend's face. The joy. She wanted to be there to give her friend the hug she deserved.

She bit her lip, holding back the tears that threatened to spill over. Her chest felt constricted, as if a great weight had settled there. This wasn't how it was supposed to be.

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