troubled - Story 155267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant jerseys, the familiar scent of the field, the excited chatter of teammates – all of it felt alien. It felt as if a physical barrier had erected itself between him and his team. He watched them practice from the bleachers, a spectator in his own life. The joy he usually found in the game was replaced by a hollow ache. He folded his arms tightly, seeking to contain the disquiet that was coursing through him.

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