troubled - Story 155161 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The champagne flute trembled in Amelia’s hand, the bubbles doing little to lighten the weight in her chest. She found herself scanning the crowd, each smiling face a blurred caricature. She’d known this wedding would be difficult, but the sight of Daniel, his arm possessively draped around a woman with a cascading blonde braid, punched the air from her lungs. She took a large gulp of the champagne, the cold liquid doing little to soothe her. A knot formed at the base of her throat, making it difficult to swallow.

The music swelled, a generic pop song designed for couples to sway to. Amelia saw Daniel lean down to whisper something into the woman’s ear, and the woman, in turn, giggled. She excused herself from the conversation she was in, muttering something about needing fresh air, and fled towards the terrace. The crisp night air did little to calm her racing pulse.

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