troubled - Story 155658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air in the cramped bus felt suffocating. Liam slumped against the window, the cold glass offering little comfort. He’d been trying to compose a scathing email to his professor, airing all his grievances regarding a recent assignment. In a moment of absent-mindedness, he’d texted it to his professor’s teenage daughter, whom he babysat.

He closed his eyes, the image of her face, and his professor's reaction, playing on repeat behind his eyelids. He felt the blood drain from his face. This would be a disaster.

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