troubled - Story 155876 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Excuse me," Leo said, his voice unusually tight. He was at the gallery, but he was afraid to look. The gallery attendant merely shrugged and gestured to a large painting in the middle of the room. Leo had been dreading this.

His heart thudded against his ribs like a trapped bird. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and finally turned. There it was. *His* painting. The one he’d buried, the one he’d thought was lost. He hadn't wanted anyone to see it. It was too personal.

A wave of nausea washed over him. He felt as though someone had invaded his most private space. He’d never felt this exposed.

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