The antique mirror in the dining room, once a source of pride, now reflected a stranger. Anna felt the cold seeping into her bones. The house had held such promise: new beginnings, fresh starts. The police file had outlined the details of an overdose. Now, the weight of the information was constant, a heavy presence. She'd stopped eating, finding no taste or joy in anything. She rubbed her arms, trying to ward off the chill, the invisible specter that had settled in alongside her.

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
S0.317
ness0.302
😔0.294
😢0.272
Suppressed:
de-0.553
la-0.511
l-0.307
/-0.260
(!)-0.236