troubled - Story 155925 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated insistently on the kitchen counter, each buzz a sharp stab of dread. Maria ignored it, stirring the soup with unnecessary vigor. Her appetite had vanished, replaced by a constant feeling of unease. The endless loop of worry, replaying the same anxieties, over and over.

The caller ID showed a number she didn't recognize. She hesitated, then answered, her voice strained. The voice on the other end was tentative, explaining they were calling on behalf of the clinic. The voice began, "We may have a match. Another patient. With… the same…"

Maria’s hand shook as she put the phone on speaker.

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