troubled - Story 155657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery blurred before Elena’s eyes. She clutched her wine glass a little too tightly, the stem digging into her palm. She’d poured out her heart, a string of grievances and frustrations, into a text message meant for her sister. Instead, she’d hit the wrong contact and sent it to her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend.

She felt a dizzying pressure behind her eyes. He had a reputation for being dramatic. Now she had to face the embarrassment. Now she had to face the consequences. She felt her face burn.

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