troubled - Story 155896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Failed the quiz." The words on the screen swam before Mark's eyes. He felt a cold dread settle in his stomach. He'd been working so hard to keep his scholarship. This setback could cost him everything.

He leaned back in his chair, the plastic creaking under his weight. He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging several strands. His heart hammered against his ribs. The pressure of maintaining his academic standing felt overwhelming, almost unbearable.

He took a shaky breath. He had to figure out what went wrong. He had to fix it. He had to. He couldn’t let this defeat him.

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