troubled - Story 155666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Anything?" Leo asked, his voice strained. He hadn't felt this edgy in years. The elevator lights flickered again, casting grotesque shadows on the walls. He was supposed to be at the museum. The exhibition was opening tonight. He just needed to be there.

His coworker, Maria, looked at him, her eyebrows raised. She knew. She was the only one that knew. He took a jerky step, then another. He knew it wouldn't happen, but just to be sure... He stared at the floor.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture frantic. His legs felt like lead. The knot in his stomach tightened with each passing minute. The show. The show. He had to be there. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the storm brewing within.

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