troubled - Story 155133 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam slammed his fist onto the worn wooden desk. The sound echoed in the small, cluttered room. The accusations had blindsided him. He'd poured his heart into this project, late nights and endless research. Now, it was all being questioned.

He ran a hand through his already messy hair, feeling the strands snag on his fingers. A knot formed in his throat, making it difficult to breathe. He felt a deep, gnawing anxiety that he couldn't shake.

He couldn't meet his roommate's eyes when he returned to their shared space. The usual easy banter felt impossible. The light from his desk lamp seemed to intensify the shadows in the room, mirroring the darkness in his mind.

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