The antique quilt lay spread across the bed, a vibrant tapestry of memories. Her cousin, in dire financial straits, was asking to sell it. Her shoulders slumped.

She ran her fingers over the faded fabric, each square telling a story of her grandmother's life. The vibrant colors now seemed to mock her. She felt drained of energy.

She couldn't bring herself to eat. The thought of losing this physical link to her past churned in her stomach. Sleep offered no respite. Every image was a stark reminder of her loss.

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