troubled - Story 155289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email pinged at the worst possible moment. From Greg, the one who had spread the rumors. It was like a physical threat. Emily's fingers felt like lead as she hovered over the "Accept" button. Her palms were slick with sweat.

She got up and walked around the house. The familiar objects felt alien and distant. She felt like she was trapped in a glass box, watching the world from the outside.

She tried to distract herself. She picked up a book, but the words swam before her eyes. She needed to do something, anything, to stop the feeling that she was losing control.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, trying to calm the storm raging inside.

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