troubled - Story 155546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the kitchen felt stifling. Linda gripped the counter, knuckles white. The discovery, the hidden Instagram account of her son, Thomas, had left her feeling like she was underwater, struggling for air. She replayed their conversations, the easy laughter, the shared meals. Were they all a lie?

She ran her hand over her face, trying to erase the images from her mind. The vibrant colors of the screen, the curated happiness, seemed to taunt her. A headache throbbed behind her eyes.

She needed to talk to someone, but she didn't know where to begin.

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