troubled - Story 155568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt stifling, and Michael found himself having difficulty breathing. He had carefully planned a day of reading and reflection. A quiet escape from the world.

Then, his friend, Ethan, scheduled a massive pub crawl. Loud music, drinking games, and rowdy crowds. It was everything he didn’t want. He squeezed his eyes shut.

He slammed his book shut, the sound echoing in the silent room. A wave of frustration washed over him. He felt betrayed, like his desires were completely invisible. He felt the familiar sting in the back of his eyes.

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