troubled - Story 155751 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug warmed Amelia's hands, but the chill in her bones remained. Years melted away as she reread the hesitant scrawl on the page. “I’m sorry, Amelia. I should have… well, I should have been better.” A single tear escaped, tracing a path down her cheek. She hadn’t thought of Daniel in years, not really. Now, the ghost of his betrayal, once a gaping wound, felt like a dull ache. She found herself clutching the letter tighter, the paper crinkling in protest. Closing her eyes, she saw again the fire in her father’s eyes.

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