troubled - Story 155229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was stuck. His writing, stalled. The words wouldn’t come. He needed inspiration. He started rifling through the attic, searching for some spark of creativity.

He unearthed a box, dusty and forgotten. "Ethan - School." His mother. She had saved everything.

He flipped through a book report he had written in fifth grade. He had hated this class. He looked at the neatly printed words, the meticulous illustrations. He felt the phantom ache in his stomach. Why did this feel so… stifling? He slammed the lid of the box shut.

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