troubled - Story 155566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you sure about this, Alex?” his mother asked, her voice laced with concern. He didn’t meet her gaze, instead focusing on meticulously arranging the silverware on the table. He was going to spend his birthday with his family. A quiet, peaceful dinner.

His friend, Ben, was planning a huge all-day festival. Live bands, food trucks, and crowds of people. Alex could feel the dread creeping up his spine.

He felt the muscles in his jaw clench, a familiar sensation. The carefully laid plans, the intimate setting he desired, felt utterly lost. He picked up his fork and bent it, unknowingly, his emotions surging. "Yes, Mom," he mumbled, his voice tight.

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