troubled - Story 155630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was stuck. Mr. Lee, his math teacher, had started commenting on his posts. He was suddenly aware of the power dynamics. He felt a deep sense of unease.

His hands shook as he closed the social media app. He felt trapped. He needed to be alone. He walked to the park, the green space always a source of peace, but it felt hollow today.

He sat on a bench, staring at the swirling leaves, a storm inside him. The world was spinning, and he couldn't find his footing. He didn't know what to do.

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