troubled - Story 155129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam ran a hand over his face, trying to scrub away the exhaustion that clung to him. He was meant to be taking the exam. Years of study, all leading to this moment. This was the single biggest step in his life. Now, it was slipping away.

He felt a deep sense of hollowness, a vast emptiness that mirrored the sterile surroundings of the airport. The faces of his peers, the people he had studied alongside, flashed before his eyes. He imagined the judgement in their faces.

He picked at the chipped paint on the armrest, the small act of defiance the only thing giving him momentary focus.

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