troubled - Story 155857 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Plant a rose garden." The simple instruction felt like a condemnation. Chloe stared at her mother's handwriting, the words a stark contrast to the sterile, organized life she had curated. Everything had to be just so; everything had to be planned. The thought of letting go, of embracing chaos, filled her with a nameless dread. The list, unearthed during the clearing of her mother's belongings, exposed the emptiness at the core of her perfectly ordered world.

Her breath hitched in her throat.

She turned away, unable to face the mess of her own feelings. She felt an urge to scrub the floor, to make everything perfect again.

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