The doctorโ€™s office felt suffocating, even with the windows open. The letter, tucked inside her purse, felt like a lead weight. Clara stared out at the bustling city street, the vibrant colours a jarring contrast to the dull ache in her chest. She had built a life, a good life, a happy life, she reminded herself. Yet now, the past threatened to unravel everything. Each breath came with a struggle, as if a hand were pressed against her lungs. She gripped her purse tighter.

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:
๐Ÿ˜ž0.343
S0.317
ness0.302
๐Ÿ˜”0.294
๐Ÿ˜ข0.272
Suppressed:
de-0.553
la-0.511
l-0.307
/-0.260
(!)-0.236