troubled - Story 155605 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That's not how it happened," Maria whispered, staring at the photograph. The image showed her great-aunt Sofia, described in family stories as a shy, delicate woman, laughing hysterically as she rode a motorcycle, a man's arms wrapped around her waist. It contradicted everything.

She felt a hollowness in her chest. She had always prided herself on knowing her family history, and now it felt as though the narrative she'd clung to was crumbling. Each photo seemed to chip away at the solid ground she'd stood on.

The silence of the house amplified her unease, the tick of the grandfather clock a constant reminder of the passing time. She felt a deep, instinctive aversion to the comfort she usually found in her own home.

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