troubled - Story 155750 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is just great," thought Alice, hands clenching into fists. The ancient, towering redwood in Mr. Johnson’s yard had finally succumbed. Its massive trunk lay across the dividing line, effectively sealing off her access to the street.

She needed to go to the store, and the thought was just too much. Her temper was brittle. She had been feuding with Mr. Johnson for years.

She felt a wave of frustration. The world felt like it was deliberately trying to impede her. She felt like she wanted to just scream. She opened the window and took a deep breath. She had to stay strong.

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