troubled - Story 155436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya stared at the television screen, her mouth a tight, thin line. The smiling chef, the bright studio lights, the blatant theft of her “Lavender Shortbread Cookies.” The anger roiling within her felt like a fever.

She leaned forward, her fists clenched on the armrests of the sofa, every muscle in her body tense. Her cookies were more than just a recipe; they were a love letter, a connection to her late mother. The audacity of this person…

The presenter's excited tones grated on her nerves, and the sudden urge to throw something came over her. Maya felt a sharp sting behind her eyes, the familiar precursor to tears.

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