troubled - Story 155825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the library was suddenly deafening. Ben stared at the two projects side-by-side on the computer screen. The same research questions, the same sources, the same conclusions. A wave of disorientation washed over him. He felt as though the very ground beneath him had shifted. His mind raced, desperately seeking a logical explanation, any explanation, other than the obvious.

He ran a hand over his face, his skin prickling. He couldn't shake the feeling of being… violated. His heart thumped rapidly against his ribs. He felt like he'd been punched. He closed the laptop. The quiet of the library became even more suffocating. He needed to get out. He needed some air.

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