troubled - Story 155543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No way," Karen muttered under her breath, staring at the phone. It felt like the ground beneath her feet had shifted, the world tilted slightly off-kilter. Her daughter, Jessica, the sweet, always-smiling Jessica, had a secret life.

She slumped onto the sofa, the cushions doing little to cushion the blow. A chill spread through her, though the room was warm. It felt like betrayal, a cold hand squeezing her heart.

She should have known, should have sensed something. A wave of regret washed over her, making her body go limp. She stared at the screen, the vibrant colours mocking her helplessness.

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