troubled - Story 155376 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank walls, each one a stark reminder of the void he felt inside. The divorce had left him hollowed out, adrift in a sea of his own making. The new house, with its echoing emptiness, was a fitting reflection of his state.

He had decided to clear out the garage, the last bastion of the previous owners. As he was sifting through the clutter, he noticed a section of the wall that seemed out of place. It was smoother, darker. Pushing on it, he discovered a hidden door.

The hidden room was small, and damp. In the middle of the room, a single, antique mirror. The reflection stared back at him, offering no comfort, only the crushing weight of his own despair.

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