troubled - Story 155330 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Chef Clara found herself avoiding the dining room. The empty tables felt like a judgment, a silent testament to her failure. The review had eviscerated her, leaving her feeling hollow and exposed.

She spent most of the day cleaning. She scrubbed the floors, wiped down counters, and polished the silverware until it gleamed. It was a distraction, a way to keep busy and avoid the painful reality.

She stood still and stared at the empty dining room, fighting back tears. She was afraid to go on.

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