"Unbelievable," she whispered, her voice barely audible. She stared at the phone. Her message, a stream of venomous complaints about her friend's new boyfriend, had been sent to the boyfriend himself. She felt the blood drain from her face.

Her breath hitched in her chest. She pictured the scene unfolding. His inevitable fury. The awkward silence. The end of the friendship. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. She was lost.

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
S0.317
ness0.302
😔0.294
😢0.272
Suppressed:
de-0.553
la-0.511
l-0.307
/-0.260
(!)-0.236