troubled - Story 155893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up, displaying a "B-" on her English essay. Emily felt a tremor run through her. This essay was the culmination of weeks spent on Shakespeare. She believed she'd nailed the analysis, the prose flowed easily, she'd followed all instructions.

She reread the comments, her gaze darting from one line to the next. The words blurred before her eyes, and she felt a prickly sensation crawl up her spine. Her jaw clenched, and she had to take a few deep breaths to regain control.

She slammed her laptop shut. The sudden darkness of the screen amplified the churning feeling in her stomach. Later, she would have to explain this to her parents. That thought intensified the pressure building behind her eyes.

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