troubled - Story 155590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"They're playing your song!" His friend exclaimed, pointing excitedly towards the stage. Leo, head bowed, forced a smile. He recognized his tune immediately, the opening guitar chords sending a jolt through his body. The singer's voice was strong, polished, the lyrics delivered with a cheerfulness that felt wrong, somehow. The music washed over him, amplifying a sense of emptiness. He watched, unable to look away, as the crowd clapped and cheered, completely unaware of the turmoil inside 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