troubled - Story 155690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pungent aroma of gunpowder still clung to the air in the garage, a stark reminder of the recent shooting competition. Her son, Miles, had inherited her love of target shooting, and now eclipsed her in skill. She'd given up long ago.

She avoided the garage, finding herself in the garden instead, staring blankly at the roses she had neglected. Miles's victories, his trophies, felt like a personal loss. She felt a distinct pressure in her temples.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the sounds of the boy’s accomplishments and the echoes of her forgotten craft. She didn't know how she could bear this.

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