troubled - Story 155390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gala was supposed to be a romantic night out. Instead, Chloe found herself standing in the corner, feeling utterly and completely alone. She saw Liam, her boyfriend, dancing intimately with another woman. The woman's laughter was loud, cutting through the music, piercing her defenses.

Her smile felt brittle, her carefully chosen dress felt like a costume. The champagne she’d been sipping now tasted like ash. Her vision blurred, and the elegant ballroom seemed to tilt.

She wanted to scream. She wanted to run. Instead, she took a deep breath, straightened her shoulders, and walked away, the glittering spectacle of the gala fading behind her like a forgotten dream.

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