troubled - Story 155756 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Just leave it, Dad,” Maya said, her voice strained. Her father, a man usually stoic, stared at the letter. “It’s been so long.” He had gone silent. He seemed to have withdrawn. The silence hung heavy in the kitchen, punctuated only by the sizzle of bacon in the pan. He eventually looked down at the parchment. His jaw clenched. He pushed the letter away. He then turned back to the bacon. He didn't speak. He wasn't the man she knew.

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