troubled - Story 155313 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The plate of spaghetti, half-eaten, felt like a lead weight in front of David. He pushed it away, the sound of the fork scraping against the ceramic grating on his nerves. Across the table, Maria was talking animatedly, her expressive hands dancing in the air. He usually loved this about her. Tonight, it felt like a performance.

Her words, the lilting cadence of Spanish, were a foreign song he couldn't join. He had thought he knew her. He knew her favorite color, her fears, her hopes for the future. He thought he knew her inside and out.

The thought of her keeping this from him, learning this secret, gnawed at him. He felt disconnected, adrift. He took a long sip of water, the cool liquid doing nothing to soothe the sudden heat in his cheeks.

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