troubled - Story 155182 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the living room, a restless lion confined to a cage of cream-colored walls. Each footfall was a heavy drumbeat against the hardwood floor, a rhythm mirroring the frantic dance inside his chest. Liam kept replaying the scene in his mind: his wife, Emily, laughing, then silencing herself the moment she saw him. Her phone, clutched close to her chest. The brief flash of panic in her eyes before she plastered on a smile that didn't quite reach them. The air was thick, heavy with unspoken accusations. He picked up a framed photo of them, wedding day smiles staring back at him. It felt like a lifetime ago.

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