troubled - Story 155949 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a cold dread settle in my gut as I sat, staring at the screen of her computer. Anna had been writing about me, or rather, a version of me. The digital words spun through my mind.

The book was a revelation, and a condemnation. The "me" in the story was weak, passive, a character controlled by his emotions. The words echoed in my head, a relentless indictment. I felt a stinging sensation behind my eyes, which made me turn away from the screen and feel the cold.

I pushed myself up and made myself busy with pointless tasks around the apartment, but my mind was stuck.

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