troubled - Story 155812 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the coffee shop, mirroring the storm brewing inside David. He hadn't slept in two days, the memories a relentless tide crashing over him. He’d needed help, something, anything, and now… this. He recognized the name on the receptionist's computer – Emily Carter, LCSW. Emily Carter. The same Emily Carter who'd made his life a misery in middle school.

He had to get out. He slammed his fist on the table, startling a nearby woman. His hands were shaking. But the appointment was already booked, the money already paid. He clenched his jaw, trying to control the surge of panic. He had to face her.

The door to the office had a small sign on it: “E. Carter, LCSW.” He took a deep breath, and entered.

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