troubled - Story 155614 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the microphone felt like a physical burden in David's hand. He felt his face flush. He was not looking forward to the speech. He’d practiced it a dozen times, but now, facing the crowd of unfamiliar faces, his carefully chosen words felt hollow. His palms grew slick with sweat.

He glanced at his father, who was beaming with pride, oblivious to the turmoil churning within him. He loved his father, he truly did. But the man's unwavering optimism, his relentless pursuit of happiness, felt like a personal affront to David's own cynicism.

He cleared his throat. "So, Dad, well... congrats." He could barely get the words out. The lump in his throat threatened to choke 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