troubled - Story 155984 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up on Liam's screen: "Important Information Regarding Your Tenancy." He froze, his fingers hovering over the mouse. He'd put off reading it for days. Finally, with a sigh, he clicked.

His pulse quickened as he read the words. Condo conversion. Eviction notices. He felt a sudden, strange fluttering in his chest. He looked around his tiny apartment, at the books lining the walls, the posters, the familiar clutter. His sanctuary.

He stood up and began pacing, the small space quickly felt claustrophobic. His hands were shaking. He hadn't realized how much this place was home.

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