troubled - Story 155544 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metallic tang of fear coated David's mouth. He wiped his sweaty palms on his jeans. This was not how he wanted to spend his Saturday. His daughter, Olivia, had always been so open, so communicative. Finding this account, filled with edgy posts and filtered photos, felt like a punch to the gut.

He wanted to scream, to smash something. Instead, he forced himself to breathe, slow and steady. The small, white iPhone seemed to grow heavier in his hand, a tangible weight of the unknown.

He thought of the late nights he'd spent at work, the missed soccer games. Had he been so blind?

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