troubled - Story 155585 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rattled along the highway, the scenery a blur of green and grey. Across the aisle, a girl was playing a familiar tune on her phone. He knew it instantly; it was his song. A knot formed in his stomach. He focused his gaze on the swirling patterns of the passing landscape, struggling to regulate his breathing. The girl, oblivious, continued to sing along, her voice untrained, her interpretation completely misaligned with the intent he'd poured into the lyrics. He felt a coldness wash over him.

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