troubled - Story 155587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old piano in the corner of his apartment was gathering dust. He hadn't touched it in months. Then, from the apartment below, he heard the familiar chords of his ballad. A cascade of images flooded his mind, vivid and unwelcome. Every single failure. Every single setback. His hands began to shake. He slammed the lid of the piano closed, the sudden noise echoing in the confines of his small apartment. The music from downstairs continued, a relentless reminder.

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