troubled - Story 155444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant pressure in his chest was a heavy, unwelcome companion. Mark couldn't eat, couldn't sleep. The very air in the shared room felt thick with unspoken accusations. He had meticulously hidden his journal under his mattress, but it provided no comfort.

He’d walked around campus, aimlessly, not looking at anyone. He didn’t know how to face his roommate, James. He dreaded the confrontation but couldn’t postpone it forever.

He sat on a bench near the quad, and watched students walk by. They were chatting, laughing, unburdened by this dark, secret knowledge. It was a crushing feeling.

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