troubled - Story 155191 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school newsletter fluttered in Elias’s hand, the glossy paper a stark contrast to the clench of his jaw. He scanned the staff list again, his pulse thrumming against his ribs. There it was: Mr. Henderson, Grade 5. The same Mr. Henderson who'd made Elias’s own elementary years a living hell. He crumpled the paper, the sound sharp in the quiet kitchen. "Damn it," he muttered, the word a raw expulsion of air. He pictured his son, Leo, and felt a familiar dread settle in his stomach. He wasn't sure how he would handle this.

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