He stared at the results printout, the stark black ink blurring slightly before his eyes. A wave of nausea washed over him, leaving him feeling hollow. This wasn't the life he knew. It couldn't be. Pacing the small kitchen, his movements jerky and uncoordinated, he muttered, “No, this is all wrong.” He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands until his scalp ached. He needed air.

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
S0.317
ness0.302
😔0.294
😢0.272
Suppressed:
de-0.553
la-0.511
l-0.307
/-0.260
(!)-0.236