troubled - Story 155737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She slammed the laptop shut, the metallic click echoing in the otherwise quiet room. The bright screen had displayed the words “Congratulations! You are accepted!” along with a picture of a faraway university. She knew she should be ecstatic, but a heavy cloak of gloom settled over her.

She walked to the window, the city lights reflecting in her eyes. The thought of leaving everything behind – her friends, her family, her life – made her chest tighten. And her best friend. The thought of not having him there felt like some kind of punishment.

She closed her eyes, trying to imagine her new reality, but all she saw was a void. She hugged herself to feel grounded, but her arms felt useless.

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