troubled - Story 155819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was late. Traffic had been a nightmare, the delays compounding the anxiety that had been building all morning. He felt the familiar pressure in his temples, the beginning of a headache. He’d been shutting down, avoiding everyone. This was the last resort.

He took a deep breath, and found the office. The name on the door was familiar. He recognized it immediately. “Dr. Lisa Chen, MSW.” Lisa Chen, who had been merciless in their youth. He leaned against the wall outside the office, willing himself to stop the tremors.

He knew he couldn’t turn back. He knew he had to go in.

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