troubled - Story 155983 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realtor’s voice, honeyed and rehearsed, filled Maria’s ears as she stood in her kitchen. "Imagine, Maria," she cooed, "owning your own piece of paradise." Maria gripped the edge of the kitchen counter, her knuckles white.

Paradise? Maria didn't feel anything remotely like it. She had just finished putting in a new floor and the thought of moving again, after the endless renovations the building had endured for weeks, felt like a punishment.

The realtor droned on, oblivious. Maria just wanted her to leave. The incessant noise from the construction, the constant stream of new faces, the feeling of being watched, all made her feel completely alone. She nodded, her throat tight, and forced a smile, the muscles in her face aching.

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