troubled - Story 155950 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun set over the city, casting long shadows across the apartment, mirroring the lengthening shadows in Clara's mind. The novel, meticulously written and bound, lay open on the coffee table. Her partner, Mark, had chronicled their life, but the details were skewed, the motivations twisted.

She ran a hand through her hair, a nervous gesture she couldn’t seem to control. The world suddenly felt off-kilter. The “Clara” in the story was portrayed as controlling and cold, a description that stung with its familiarity.

She paced the length of the living room, a restless energy coursing through her. The comfortable space now felt like a cage.

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