troubled - Story 155451 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah slammed the laptop shut, the screen going black. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic bird trapped in a cage. She hadn’t expected this. Not *this*. She stood up, knocking over her chair, the sudden noise echoing in the silent apartment. Picking it up, she sat back down, staring at the blank wall. Her hands were shaking. She felt a profound and unsettling disorientation, as if the ground beneath her feet had suddenly dissolved.

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