troubled - Story 155282 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stared at the glowing screen, the request from Jessica still mocking him. She was the one who spread the rumor about his family. His fingers were shaking as he read her name. He wanted to scream. He felt his face flush as his heart pounded against his ribs.

He slammed his fist on the desk, the sound echoing in his small apartment. The chipped paint on the wall seemed to mock him. His breath came in ragged gasps.

He paced the length of his living room, a restless energy coursing through him. His mind swirled with conflicting thoughts: should he accept? Should he block her?

He made a cup of instant coffee but immediately forgot about it, the bitterness of the lukewarm liquid mirroring the churning emotions within 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