troubled - Story 155758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter sat on her desk, a small, square reminder of a past she’d worked so hard to bury. “I know I hurt you,” the words read. She reread the sentence. Anger pulsed through her, hot and visceral. Her fists clenched. She rose from her chair, pacing the room, feeling trapped. The walls seemed to close in. She wanted to scream. She sank back into the chair. She could not.

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