troubled - Story 155569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee offered no comfort as he stared blankly at his laptop. He had put so much effort into planning a hiking trip into the mountains to celebrate his birthday. He wanted the peace and quiet of nature.

His friend, Chris, was hosting a huge barbeque and bonfire party on the beach. It was going to be a loud, boisterous gathering. He felt it in his bones that he wouldn’t enjoy it.

He pushed his chair back from the desk, the legs screeching against the floor. He felt a burning sensation in his stomach. The planned peace of his birthday was in tatters.

He felt the urge to scream.

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