troubled - Story 155290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request arrived just as he was about to sign off. From Robert, the instigator of a childhood incident he'd buried deep. The name, a name he thought he'd forgotten, now resurrected a painful past. Daniel felt a coldness creep over him.

He pushed away from his desk. The room felt stifling, the air thick and heavy. He felt a sudden wave of nausea.

He grabbed his car keys and drove. He didn't know where he was going, just away. The familiar roads seemed unfamiliar and threatening. The world outside his car window rushed by in a blur, mirroring the chaotic churn inside his mind.

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