troubled - Story 155270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's just not fair," I whispered to myself, the words barely audible. I sat curled up on my bed, the covers pulled up to my chin. The disappointment gnawed at me, a persistent ache in my chest. I felt a profound sense of isolation, cut off from the camaraderie I'd desperately sought. The walls seemed to be closing in around me, the silence of my room punctuated only by the raggedness of my breathing.

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