troubled - Story 155707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant buzzing of the printer felt like a direct assault on Ethan's senses. He couldn't seem to focus, his mind a whirlwind of conflicting thoughts. He felt exposed, vulnerable, on the edge of a breakdown. He hated being here.

He noticed Maria excitedly pulling out photos, showing them to their team. It was camp something. He couldn't quite catch the name. Maria’s words reached him, a high-pitched drone, “Remember that crazy summer at Camp Firefly?” Ethan froze.

Maria looked at him expectantly, her smile faltering slightly. “Ethan? You’re awfully quiet. Did you go to Firefly too?” His palms were suddenly slick with sweat. He tried to speak, but the words wouldn't come.

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