troubled - Story 155686 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David watched from the doorway as his son, Ben, meticulously arranged his collection of vintage model trains on the track. His collection! It was all David’s, once, but Ben, now ten, had inherited and expanded the passion, commandeering the entire basement with his intricate layouts.

A wave of heat washed over him. He felt trapped, pinned. His collection, his hobby, his sense of ownership, felt…lost. The air in the basement suddenly seemed stifling.

David backed away, the cheerful chugging of the trains a mocking soundtrack. He felt suffocated by the very thing that once brought him such delight.

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