troubled - Story 155339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her spoon clattered against the ceramic bowl as she read the email a second time, the words refusing to make sense. It was just a restaurant, right? Why did the thought of its closure make her feel…like this? She took a long, shaky breath, the air tasting thin and unsatisfying.

She pushed herself away from the table, a sudden surge of restlessness coursing through her. She needed to do something, anything to distract herself. She grabbed her keys and headed for the door, the familiar routine of her day now disrupted, fractured.

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