troubled - Story 155978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun seemed to beat down with extra force as I listened to Mr. Davies’s proposal. A garden. In *my* yard. The thought sent a jolt through me, a sharp sting of discomfort.

My breath hitched. The carefully cultivated image I presented to the world – calm, collected, in control – threatened to crumble. The pressure in my head was a dull throb.

"I’m… not sure," I managed, the words thin and reedy. I took a step backward, wanting to escape the cheerful optimism radiating from him. My hands were shaking.

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