troubled - Story 155895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A C?" David repeated, his voice barely above a whisper. He’d dedicated hours to the pottery project, meticulously crafting his vase. He’d dreamt of showcasing his work. Now, standing in front of the art teacher, the pottery instructor's judgment felt like a personal attack.

He felt a deep flush rise from his chest, creeping up his neck. He couldn't meet the teacher’s eyes, focusing instead on a crack in the tile floor. He clenched his fists, struggling to contain the surge of emotion threatening to erupt.

He mumbled something unintelligible and turned away. He wanted to scream. He wanted to shatter his creation into a million pieces. The silence in the studio felt suffocating, and he wanted 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
`S`	0.317
`ness`	0.302
`😔`	0.294
`😢`	0.272

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.553
`la`	-0.511
`l`	-0.307
`/`	-0.260
`(!)`	-0.236