troubled - Story 155329 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had always found solace in the simple act of chopping vegetables, the rhythmic thud of the knife against the cutting board. But today, even that routine brought no comfort. Chef Dimitri’s hands trembled as he chopped.

The words of the review echoed in his ears, a constant chorus of negativity. He felt a deep sense of inadequacy, as if he had failed everyone. He dropped the knife and leaned against the counter.

He closed his eyes. He felt a terrible sense of isolation.

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