troubled - Story 155947 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery felt muted to Leo’s eyes. He stood amongst the crowd, a forced smile plastered on his face, but his mind was elsewhere. He’d discovered the manuscript this morning, stashed inside his girlfriend’s sketchbook. It was a roman à clef, a thinly veiled story of their romance, and he was the villain.

He excused himself, making his way outside and standing there. He closed his eyes, inhaling deeply, but the breath didn't help. He had been portrayed as shallow, unreliable, a master of deception. The words echoed in his mind, a relentless assault on his self-image.

The cool air did nothing to calm the fire raging within.

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