troubled - Story 155709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the otherwise bustling office amplified the hollow feeling inside Liam. He found his hands trembling as he tried to concentrate. His chest felt constricted, as if it were being squeezed.

He was startled by a booming laugh, and then saw it was Kevin, their newest hire. Kevin was excitedly showing a group of colleagues photos on his phone. It was a familiar backdrop, a familiar logo, “Camp North Star.” Liam felt his face drain of color.

Kevin, noticing Liam's reaction, turned towards him, a question in his eyes. "You look kind of pale...did you go to Camp North Star too?" The question hung in the air, heavy with a shared past. Liam’s palms began to sweat.

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