troubled - Story 155634 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The kitchen was a mess. Dishes piled in the sink, unwashed. Empty coffee cups littered the counter. Liam stared at the letter. The paper was stiff and yellowed. The handwriting was his, shaky and hurried. It was a draft to his younger sister.

He felt the familiar thrumming in his chest. He should have been there for her. He remembered the fight they had before he moved across the country. The words on the page were filled with regret, a desperate attempt to bridge the gulf between them. A pressure built behind his eyes, a tightness he tried to ignore.

He crumpled the letter, then immediately smoothed it out, reading it again. He needed to make things right. He needed her.

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