troubled - Story 155619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to the retirement party seemed unusually long to Freya. Each mile felt like a step closer to the inevitable confrontation. She didn't want to be there. She felt a deep, profound sense of unease.

Her relationship with her mother had always been strained, a delicate dance of unspoken resentments and passive-aggressive remarks. Now, she was supposed to deliver a heartfelt speech, a testament to her mother’s dedication and love.

She imagined her mother's reaction, the subtle critiques hidden beneath a veneer of polite smiles. When she arrived, she remained on the periphery of the party, watching her family, her stomach churning. She felt like an outsider, a silent observer in a play she didn't want to be a part of. The moment her name was called, her hands started to tremble, her mouth felt dry.

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