troubled - Story 155921 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the hospital cafeteria, mirroring the turmoil in Amelia’s chest. Another blood test. Another inconclusive result. Her fingers drummed a frantic rhythm against the plastic tray. The diagnosis of Erythrocytic Anomaly Type 7 was elusive. Her doctors seemed as baffled as she felt.

She picked listlessly at a soggy sandwich, the cheese tasting like ash. A nurse, her name tag reading "Brenda," approached her table. “Ms. Jones? There’s someone here to see you. Says they have something in common.”

A woman with kind eyes and a familiar, almost identical, nervous twitch entered the cafeteria. This was unexpected. Amelia braced herself, feeling a knot tighten in her stomach.

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