troubled - Story 155638 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office was quiet, the fluorescent lights humming overhead. Daniel sifted through a stack of old files, searching for a misplaced document. Instead, he found a sealed envelope, addressed to his former boss. The handwriting was his. He knew what was inside.

He didn't open it. He didn't need to. He knew the words, the resignation, the bitterness he felt at the time. He had a tight feeling in his chest. A knot formed in his stomach. He was relieved that it was never sent.

He tossed it back into the box. He didn’t want to confront the person he was then. Not today.

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