troubled - Story 155130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the terminal seemed to mock Chloe as she watched the departure board. Her brother's surprise proposal. This was the moment she had been waiting for all year. She had to be there to share this with him.

She began to pace, the same route, over and over again. The anxiety clawed at her insides, twisting and turning like a live thing. The joyful anticipation she had felt moments before evaporated, replaced by a cold, numbing dread.

She stopped abruptly, and just stared at the boarding gate. She couldn't believe this was happening.

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