troubled - Story 155567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the birthday decorations in the park mocked her. Sophie stared at the scene from across the street. She had envisioned a simple picnic, a shared meal beneath the summer sun, a quiet celebration.

Her friend, Rachel, was hosting a massive carnival with rides, games, and a cacophony of noise. Sophie felt a tightening in her chest.

She bit her lip, her eyes scanning the happy faces of the partygoers. Her own celebration, in comparison, felt hollow. The joy of the other party was causing a pain in her chest.

She turned and began to walk away, the image of happy faces burned into her memory.

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