troubled - Story 155287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a punch to the gut. The request from Michael, the one who always made him feel small. The notification notification blared, a digital scream echoing in the silence of the room. He felt his head spinning.

He switched the computer off, the abrupt darkness of the room made him feel even more confined. He felt a sudden, overwhelming pressure in his chest.

He headed to the bathroom, splashing cold water on his face. The water didn't help. He stared at his reflection, a stranger looking back. His eyes were wide and unfocused.

The world seemed to shrink around 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