troubled - Story 155747 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound had been like a giant’s sigh. Now, from his bedroom window, Michael saw the twisted form of the oak tree. The tree was a constant reminder of the long relationship the previous owners had. It was a beautiful tree.

He was wrestling with the decision of whether or not to move, and the weight of the choice had settled on him like a physical burden. He wanted to leave his current neighborhood.

His jaw clenched. He felt himself tightening up, the muscles in his back pulling. The thought of dealing with this, the aftermath, just added to the pressure. He felt the need to get away.

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