Sarah slumped onto the bench, the hard wood digging into her back. The rejection letter felt heavy in her hand, a physical weight mirroring the burden in her chest. Her breath hitched. The air in the gymnasium seemed thin, hard to draw. She squeezed her eyes shut, fighting back the sting behind them. The cheers of the winning team felt miles away, a distant, mocking soundtrack to her despair. Her hands trembled as she balled the letter up.

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