troubled - Story 155836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you sure this is correct, Mr. Thompson?” The teller’s voice was polite, but the query felt pointed. He’d never thought to look this up before. He stared at the printout. His wife, Emily, had opened a secret savings account. The amount? Shocking.

He felt the blood drain from his face. His carefully constructed world was suddenly off-kilter. The image of Emily, laughing, smiling, from a few hours ago, played over and over in his mind.

He mumbled a thank you and stumbled out of the bank. The sunny day felt oppressive. He needed to get away, to walk, to think. He couldn't quite decide where to go, but his body started moving anyway.

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