The air in the room felt thick, almost suffocating. He tried to focus on his conversation, but the words felt clumsy in his mouth. He found himself constantly glancing towards the dance floor, his attention constantly drawn to a single figure. His leg bounced.

He saw her smiling and dancing with someone else. His breath hitched in his throat, and the feeling that had begun to fade resurfaced in full force. He felt as if the world was spinning. He had to get some air, so he excused himself from the conversation and moved toward the doors.

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
S0.317
ness0.302
😔0.294
😢0.272
Suppressed:
de-0.553
la-0.511
l-0.307
/-0.260
(!)-0.236