The world seemed to tilt on its axis when Sarah walked out to an empty space. Her breath hitched. The car, her grandfather's old station wagon, was gone. It had held so many memories, so much of him. Now, just an emptiness. She felt a cold dread crawl up her spine. A wave of nausea washed over her. The letter on the ground, notifying her of the impound, was blurry through the sudden film in her eyes. It seemed like she'd lost not just a car, but a piece of 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
S0.317
ness0.302
😔0.294
😢0.272
Suppressed:
de-0.553
la-0.511
l-0.307
/-0.260
(!)-0.236