troubled - Story 155745 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first thing he saw was the light of the morning glinting off the splintered wood. The crash had happened in the night and the morning brought with it a cold, hard dose of reality. It reminded him of the fight he had with his brother the other day. He felt like he had ruined things.

He could see the tree from his kitchen window. The sight of it made his chest ache. He had always been the one who was too clumsy, the one who broke things. He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he had developed over years of anxieties.

He wanted to scream but he couldn't. He couldn't speak. He walked to the coffee pot, pouring the steaming liquid into a mug, hoping it would help ease the sting inside. The coffee smelled like nothing.

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