He’d taken to working late, claiming urgent deadlines and demanding clients. She found his alibi flimsy, a house built on sand. It was the way he avoided eye contact, the way his smile no longer seemed to reach his eyes. The tension had become a tangible thing, a heavy weight pressing down on her shoulders. She spent the evenings staring at the ceiling, sleep evading her. The image of him, bathed in the glow of his phone, consumed her, leaving her feeling hollow and bereft.

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
πŸ˜”0.294
😒0.272
Suppressed:
de-0.553
la-0.511
l-0.307
/-0.260
(!)-0.236