troubled - Story 155628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. Coach Miller, his basketball coach, had requested to follow him on his private account. He swallowed hard. What was he supposed to do?

He felt the muscles in his jaw tighten. He kept replaying his posts in his head, the ones about pressure, about struggling to live up to expectations. The truth, now, was glaring at him.

He slammed his fist against the desk, a sudden, explosive burst of frustration. He needed to get away, to escape the suffocating weight of being seen, of being judged.

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