He hadn't been to a gallery in years. Daniel suddenly had to. He saw it online, a blurry photo of *his* sculpture, displayed under lights. His hands clenched into fists. He felt it in his gut, a cold, hard knot.

He'd spent months crafting that piece. He'd poured his heart and soul into it. And now, it was being used, exploited, without his consent. It felt like a punch in the face.

He looked around the gallery, seeing only blurred faces and artificial smiles. He felt a growing rage, a desire to smash the entire exhibition. He took a deep breath, fighting to control himself. He had to figure this out.

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
S0.317
ness0.302
😔0.294
😢0.272
Suppressed:
de-0.553
la-0.511
l-0.307
/-0.260
(!)-0.236