troubled - Story 155420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maria, her face streaked with tears, found the wallet near the bus stop. Her relationship had ended, and she felt as if her world had shattered. She was alone and adrift. The sting of rejection still burned.

She held the wallet, felt the cold leather. Her hands shook as she flipped it open. The money seemed to mock her, a symbol of everything she had lost. She imagined the future. A fresh start.

She closed her eyes, the image of her ex-partner dancing in her mind. The decision felt impossible. Her chest tightened. She took a deep breath, and the cold metal of the wallet in her hand suddenly felt like a heavy weight.

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