troubled - Story 155441 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ramen tasted like ash. Sarah stared at the swirling broth, the steam doing little to warm her. She'd been avoiding her roommate, Emily, since the unsettling discovery. Every creak of the door, every rustle of a page, sent a jolt of anxiety through her. The journal, a simple composition book, now felt like a gaping wound.

She'd locked herself in the cramped dorm room all afternoon, pretending to study. Her textbooks lay open, untouched. The sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air, but she couldn't focus on anything but the sick feeling in her stomach.

“Hey,” Emily’s voice, a hesitant whisper, pulled her from her thoughts. Sarah flinched, turning slowly. Emily stood awkwardly in the doorway, her usual bright smile absent.

"Can we talk?" Emily asked, her voice quiet. Sarah didn’t respond. She just kept eating her ramen.

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