troubled - Story 155327 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang incessantly, but Chef Kai ignored it. He was a man accustomed to success, and the public humiliation of the review was almost unbearable. He wanted to disappear.

He sat on the floor, his back against the wall, his knees drawn up to his chest. His breathing was shallow and erratic. He felt a desperate need to retreat, to escape the judgment.

He stayed there for hours, lost in a sea of despair. Eventually, he forced himself to stand. He needed a drink.

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