troubled - Story 155138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“How could this have happened?” Amelia said to herself, pacing her small living room. The accusation, a heavy weight, pressed down on her chest. She needed answers. This was a nightmare.

She ran her hand through her hair, desperate for a solution. Every memory, every detail of the work, played on repeat in her mind. Her head swam. She felt trapped in an endless cycle.

She picked up her phone, hesitating. Who could she call? She felt utterly alone. She dropped it back on the table. The silence of the room was punctuated only by her rapid breaths.

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