troubled - Story 155705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt like an eternity, each floor a fresh descent into a pit of internal turmoil for Daniel. He felt like his heart had dropped into his stomach. The world seemed to be closing in around him. He felt like he wanted to hide.

He stepped out, and there, on the bulletin board, was a flyer for a company picnic. The graphic showed a picture of a lake with the words “Remember Camp Timber Ridge?” written across the top. Daniel's breath caught in his throat.

He saw his coworker, Jessica, reading the flyer with a smile. "Camp Timber Ridge was the best summer ever, right?" she said, turning to him. Her eyes met his, and he could barely meet her gaze. He needed to be gone. He needed to disappear.

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