The house was beautiful, a sprawling Victorian with intricate details. I loved it. But now, every creak, every groan of the old wood, felt like a deliberate pronouncement. I’d walked through the house, feeling a connection to the place, the past. Then I saw the report: A suicide. Now I jumped at every shadow, flinched at every sudden noise. The air inside felt heavy, thick with something I couldn't name.

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:
šŸ˜ž0.343
S0.317
ness0.302
šŸ˜”0.294
😢0.272
Suppressed:
de-0.553
la-0.511
l-0.307
/-0.260
(!)-0.236