troubled - Story 155288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright screen of the phone felt like a spotlight on his past. It was from Emily, who had made him out to be an easy target. The notification pulsed with an unsettling energy. He found himself unable to breathe normally.

He tried to go back to work, but the words on the page blurred. He couldn't concentrate. He kept seeing her face, the way she used to laugh.

He opened the fridge, searching for something to soothe the turmoil inside. He took out a beer, the cold bottle offering no relief. He took a long swig, hoping it would help, but it just made him feel worse.

He couldn't stand the stillness of the house. He turned on the television, flipping through channels, searching for an escape.

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