troubled - Story 155927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery felt muted to Elara. She drifted through the exhibits, unable to focus, her thoughts a tangled mess. She'd been feeling off for months, a persistent sense of unease that the doctors couldn’t pinpoint. The uncertainty gnawed at her, making it impossible to enjoy anything.

She noticed a woman studying a painting with a particular intensity, her brow furrowed. After a few beats, the woman turned to Elara. "Are you… are you here for the support group meeting? It's about…the condition."

Elara's chest seized. She nodded slowly, feeling a fragile connection with a stranger.

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