troubled - Story 155696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Congratulations to you both.” The words of the CEO echoed in his mind. He took a long drag of his cigarette. He was never a smoker, but the stress had made him relapse. The smoke didn't soothe, it only aggravated. He watched it swirl. He should be celebrating, but he couldn't.

He watched Carol, his competitor, walking in the distance. He looked away, turning his gaze to the sky. He felt betrayed. He felt exposed. He was tired of pretending. He felt as if he was losing control of everything.

He walked back into the office, his pace slower than usual. He felt a profound sense of loss, even before the decision was announced.

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