Liam paced his living room, the worn rug offering no solace under his feet. Heโ€™d just received the email from his daughter's school: Mr. Finch, Grade 2. The same Mr. Finch who'd called him "slow" and "unmotivated" in the same grade. Liamโ€™s hands clenched into fists, the knuckles white. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands as if trying to physically extract the past. He felt a deep, unsettling unease, a knot forming in his gut. His daughter, Chloe, was so young, so full of joy. He had to do something.

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:
๐Ÿ˜ž0.343
S0.317
ness0.302
๐Ÿ˜”0.294
๐Ÿ˜ข0.272
Suppressed:
de-0.553
la-0.511
l-0.307
/-0.260
(!)-0.236