troubled - Story 155669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold sweat slicked down Maya's spine. The memory resurfaced, vivid and raw. Her coworker, Ben, was trying to make small talk, but she barely heard him. He was a nice guy, and deserved better. She stared at the elevator door.

The sound of the bell chimed in her head, echoing in the confined space. She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to block out the images. Her hands trembled. She wanted to scream.

She pressed her palms against her temples, trying to hold herself together. It had been years, but the fear was as real as it had been that day. She felt the tears welling up, threatening to spill over.

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