troubled - Story 155850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You have to be more considerate," the property manager had said, his voice stern. The bass from the speakers was vibrating the floorboards. He felt his face heat up.

He stared at the sound system, a prized possession. He loved the music. But he felt the weight of the complaint, the fear of eviction pressing down on him.

He walked over to the speakers, his hand hovering over the power button. The silence was almost a tangible thing. He felt the familiar feeling of being cornered, of having his freedom curtailed. He switched it off, the dark room swallowing the last of the sound. He hated the feeling.

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