troubled - Story 155230 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The debt was crushing her. She needed to sell some of her belongings to make ends meet. She started with the storage unit, a place she hadn’t visited in years. The task was depressing.

She found a box labeled "Sophia - School." Her mother had saved everything. A sigh escaped her lips. This was a bad omen.

She opened the box. Her eyes skimmed over a math test, a science project, a social studies essay. She felt a sudden, inexplicable sense of suffocation. She shut the lid and threw the box back in the corner. She did not want to deal with this.

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