troubled - Story 155450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The exam paper felt like lead in his hands. He couldn’t concentrate, his mind racing, jumping from thought to thought. He kept replaying the scene in his head. The sight of his roommate's face, the words exchanged, the awful, hollow feeling in his chest. He was having a hard time focusing.

He was irritable, short-tempered with everyone. He was pushing his friends away, retreating into himself. The world, once full of possibilities, now felt gray and oppressive.

He knew he needed to confront the situation, but the prospect terrified him. He felt cornered, trapped, and afraid of what the future held.

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