troubled - Story 155437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small bakery seemed to shrink around Sarah, the scent of cinnamon and nutmeg suddenly suffocating. Her “Autumn Spice Cake," her signature creation, was now advertised in every food magazine, credited to a celebrity baker.

She scrubbed a hand across her forehead, the touch cold and clammy. She felt a hollow emptiness that spread through her, echoing in the space of her heart. She hadn't slept well in days, and her nerves were frayed.

She forced herself to take a deep breath, fighting the sudden urge to flee. The injustice of it all - it felt like she had been kicked in the stomach, and she found herself sitting on a stool, head resting on the counter.

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