troubled - Story 155149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I walked into the music room, the scent of rosin and wood filling the air, but the music was gone. Professor Dubois, my mentor, had simply packed up and left. No final lesson, no last concert. I felt a weight in my chest, a heaviness I couldn’t shake. I ran my fingers over the keys of the piano, the cold ivory offering no comfort. My fingers fumbled as I tried to play a simple scale, the notes disjointed and wrong. The silence was a physical presence, pressing down on me.

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