troubled - Story 155593 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just a polite brush-off," she muttered, reading the carefully worded rejection letter for the tenth time. The publisher’s response seemed to have sucked all the air out of the room. She felt like a deflated balloon, all her aspirations and hopes now scattered on the floor.

She slammed the letter down on the kitchen table, the sound echoing in the empty apartment. The coffee she had made sat untouched in her mug. She didn't want coffee, she didn't want food, she didn't want anything. She stood there, frozen.

Her gaze landed on the overflowing laundry basket, and she felt a surge of irrational anger. She started shoving clothes into the washing machine, the rhythmic thumping a feeble attempt to find some kind of release.

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