troubled - Story 155708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale smell of the office coffee triggered a wave of nausea in Olivia. She sat hunched at her desk, the fluorescent lights making her head throb. She felt like she was being slowly suffocated. She didn't want to be here.

She watched as Mark, a new hire, pulled out his phone. He was showing a picture of what looked like a lakeside cabin. A camp logo was visible: "Camp Serenity." Olivia felt a jolt of alarm.

Mark looked up, his eyes meeting hers. "Ever been to Serenity? Incredible place, right?" He seemed to be waiting for a response, his smile warm and friendly. Olivia's mouth felt dry.

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