troubled - Story 155653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window of the coffee shop, mirroring the storm brewing inside Maya. She'd been staring blankly at her lukewarm latte for what felt like an eternity. The text, intended for her best friend expressing the depths of her despair, had landed square in the inbox of her boss. Now, she was the one caught in a storm.

She took a shaky breath. Her hands were clammy. She’d been agonizing over how to handle the inevitable awkwardness of tomorrow morning. Her boss was notoriously stoic. What would he think? What would happen?

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