He stared at the flowers, a collection of delicate pastel roses, sitting on the cold tile floor. The apartment seemed so small, the air thick. He hadn’t eaten anything all day. It seemed someone was taking the opportunity to torment him.

He was sweating, the heat of the day intensifying the feeling of dread that had been building for weeks. He paced the small space, his boots echoing in the emptiness. He wanted to scream. He wanted to understand. He wanted everything to stop.

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
S0.317
ness0.302
😔0.294
😢0.272
Suppressed:
de-0.553
la-0.511
l-0.307
/-0.260
(!)-0.236