troubled - Story 155655 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt thick, stifling. Sarah ran her finger across the cover of the book she’d been pretending to read, her eyes darting between the words on the page and the glowing screen in her hand. The message. Oh, god, the message. A confessional, meant for her journal, had been sent to the new guy in accounting.

She felt a flush creep up her neck. Every shadow seemed to be watching her. Each step, each cough felt magnified by the silence of the library. Now she had to go to work tomorrow. What was she going to say? What would he 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