troubled - Story 155798 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It’s a steal,” the agent had beamed, gesturing to the sprawling backyard. Now, Amelia couldn’t bear to venture outside. The report spoke of a double homicide. The sun felt wrong, too bright, almost accusing. The scent of the roses was cloying. She wandered through the rooms, the silence suffocating. Everything felt tainted, as if the very walls held a residue of what had happened there. She'd started leaving all the lights on, even during the day.

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