troubled - Story 155192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah kept replaying the scene in her mind, the principal's jovial face, the polite handshake. "Mrs. Davies, I think you'll find Ms. Albright a wonderful teacher." Wonderful. The word felt like a taunt. Ms. Albright, the woman who'd systematically dismantled Sarah's confidence in art class, was now her daughter Lily's fourth-grade teacher. Sarah found herself unable to breathe properly. A cold sweat slicked her palms as she drove home, the steering wheel suddenly feeling alien and heavy under her grip. "No," she whispered to herself.

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