troubled - Story 155670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt the familiar pressure building in his chest. A physical weight. He clenched his jaw, trying to keep the anger bottled up. He couldn't afford to lose it. Not now. Not here. His coworker, Susan, was rambling about her weekend plans, oblivious to his inner turmoil.

He forced a smile, a rigid, unnatural curve of his lips. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous habit he'd developed over the past few months. He needed to get out. He needed space. He needed to get away from everything and everyone.

He stared at the call button, his fingers twitching. He wanted to smash it. He wanted to break something. He took a deep breath, trying to regain control. It wasn't the time or the place, but he felt so much hate.

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