The world seemed to spin. Amelia felt a cold sweat prickling her skin as she sat in the therapist’s chair. She couldn't stop tapping her foot. The assignment from work was due tomorrow, and she had nothing. Panic clenched her throat, making it difficult to breathe. The anxiety she felt had become a constant companion.

Then the door opened, and standing there was… Kevin. Kevin, who used to delight in making her life miserable. He looked different, older, yes, but still… the familiar shape of his face. Her mouth went dry. This couldn't be happening.

“Amelia?” he said, his voice neutral. She could feel her palms getting clammy. The room started to feel too small.

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