troubled - Story 155311 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually a comfort, now felt like a taunt. Liam sat at the kitchen table, staring at the newspaper, his jaw clenched so tightly he felt a headache blooming behind his eyes. He heard a soft chuckle from the hallway, and his breath hitched. He knew that laugh. It was the laugh of the woman he loved, the woman he’d built a life with. But the words that followed… they weren't English. Not a language he knew.

He slowly put down the paper, a cold dread washing over him. The air felt thick, heavy. He rose slowly and walked towards the sound, his feet feeling weighted.

"Bonjour, mon amour," she said when she saw him, her smile wide.

Liam’s chest felt like it had been slammed shut. He didn't respond, just stared. The French words, so innocent on her lips, twisted in his gut.

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