troubled - Story 155933 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"More coffee?" the barista asked, her voice cheerful. Sarah shook her head, unable to meet her eyes. The flowers, nestled on the table, felt like a judgment. A vibrant assortment of sunflowers and irises. The sun, a harsh glare on her face, reminded her she hadn’t been outside in days.

She had spent the morning staring at her phone, willing someone, anyone, to call. The silence had been deafening. The flowers, with their silent beauty, only heightened the feeling of isolation. She wrapped her arms around herself, the chill in the café seemed to seep into her bones.

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