troubled - Story 155399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the library offered a temporary reprieve from the constant noise in her head. She picked up a volume of poetry, anything to quiet the turmoil within. Something felt loose in the pages. A letter.

It was a love letter, overflowing with adoration and longing. She devoured the words, the romantic language, the breathless descriptions of the beloved. She found herself clutching the page and feeling the coldness of envy.

She felt the familiar sting of loneliness. The words only underscored what she lacked. It created a raw ache within her chest. She crumpled the letter in her hand and placed it back in the book, feeling the world close in on her.

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