troubled - Story 155704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The incessant tapping of her pen against the desk felt like a drumbeat echoing the anxieties thrumming within Emily. She felt a need for an escape. The office was suffocating, and the paperwork was an enemy. She wanted to scream.

She heard a guffaw from across the room. It was Ben, excitedly showing a picture to their boss. A logo on the t-shirt read "Camp Skylark." Emily's breath hitched. She recognised the logo instantly. It was a place she had tried to bury deep within herself.

Ben was now walking towards her, the photo still in his hand, a grin plastered across his face. "Did you ever go to Camp Skylark? Small world if you did, right?" He peered at her with a knowing expression. A cold dread seeped into her bones.

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