troubled - Story 155652 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the small confines of his apartment, the worn rug offering little solace to his restless feet. The weight in his chest had been a constant companion since the incident. He knew, he *knew*, he shouldn't have been looking through her old photos, but he had. And in a moment of weakness, he’d texted her brother, a message laced with a desperate plea for understanding, a message meant only for himself.

He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair. Now, he would have to face the fallout. The phone on the coffee table seemed to vibrate with a phantom buzz. He knew what he’d find if he looked, and the dread coiled in his stomach was almost unbearable.

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