troubled - Story 155547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

James slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing through the empty house. His daughter, Chloe, had a hidden life. A whole other world he knew nothing about. He felt a rising anger, a hot current that coursed through his veins.

He walked to the window, staring out at the city lights. Each twinkling point seemed to mock his ignorance. His chest felt tight, constricting his breaths. The anger was quickly followed by a crushing sadness.

He felt adrift, lost in a sea of unspoken emotions.

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