The drive to the therapist's office had been a blur. He’d barely registered the scenery. His thoughts were a chaotic jumble, words and images colliding in a frantic dance. He couldn't seem to quiet the relentless chatter in his head. He felt as if everything was falling apart.

He parked the car, and headed towards the building. He went to the designated room number. He read the name on the doorplate – β€œDr. Rebecca Thorne.” The same name as the girl who used to steal his lunch money. His heart pounded. This had to be a cruel joke.

He took a deep breath, steeling himself. He knocked on the door.

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
πŸ˜”0.294
😒0.272
Suppressed:
de-0.553
la-0.511
l-0.307
/-0.260
(!)-0.236