troubled - Story 155169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach churned, a physical manifestation of the unease that had been building since she arrived. It was her best friend's wedding, and she should be happy, but the knowledge of his presence cast a shadow over everything. She picked at the small appetizers, unable to eat. The music seemed too loud, the laughter too forced.

She saw him. Across the room, engaged in conversation, his gaze sweeping over the crowd. Their eyes met, and she quickly looked away. She felt a heat rush to her face, a feeling that had nothing to do with the temperature of the room. A tightness formed in her chest.

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