Her hands trembled as she clutched the note. The car was her lifeline, her freedom, her only solid connection to the outside world. Now, the open space in the driveway mocked her, echoing the hollow ache inside. She thought of the doctor's appointment she had to keep, the groceries she needed. The thought of dealing with this, on top of everything else, threatened to crumble the fragile structure she’d built. A single tear tracked a path down her cheek.

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