troubled - Story 155975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The insistent buzzing of the doorbell made Sarah jump. It was Mrs. Rodriguez. A request: could she use a small corner of the yard for sunflowers? Sarah felt a prickling sensation behind her eyes, the familiar sting of building pressure.

She forced a smile, but it felt brittle. The world around her seemed to shrink, closing in. The vibrant colors of Mrs. Rodriguez's garden proposal seemed to mock her internal grayness.

"I… I’ll have to think about it," she replied, her voice trembling slightly. Each word felt heavy, difficult to push out. She wanted to retreat, to disappear into the quiet darkness of her house.

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