troubled - Story 155457 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He drove for hours, the scenery blurring into a meaningless tapestry. He had no destination, only a desperate need to keep moving. The radio played a cheerful tune, which grated on his nerves. He turned it off, seeking the solace of the engine’s hum. He couldn’t seem to breathe right, his chest feeling constricted, as if something was pressing down on it. He pulled over to the side of the road and rested his head on the steering wheel.

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