troubled - Story 155840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Where were you?" Richard's voice was sharp. He hadn't been expecting his wife, Susan, home from shopping. But she was. And he was standing there holding the statement. The hidden account.

Susan's face paled. She didn't say a word, just looked at the paper in his hands. He felt a fire in his chest, a burning that radiated outwards.

He wanted to scream, to lash out. Instead, he simply looked at her, searching her face for… something. For a reason, maybe. But he didn't find it. He wanted to leave, but he was rooted to the spot.

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