troubled - Story 155924 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug warmed Leo's hands, but it did little to thaw the icy grip of his anxiety. He avoided eye contact in the crowded coffee shop, watching the swirling patterns of the latte. Every cough, every sneeze, sent a jolt of panic through him. Another test tomorrow. Another day spent fearing the worst.

A man, his face etched with worry, approached his table. “Excuse me,” the man began, his voice hesitant. "I couldn't help but notice...that you're reading the same medical journal I was. Do you…do you have the same thing?"

Leo's breath hitched. He closed the journal, feeling exposed.

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