troubled - Story 156000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Congratulations!" The email screamed from the screen. Alex felt a wave of coldness wash over him. His essay, a personal reflection on his grandfather’s dementia, was selected to be used in the university’s orientation program. He felt a deep sense of disconnect, a hollowness that echoed through him.

The essay had been his attempt to make sense of loss. Now, it was being used as a tool, a lesson. He felt the weight of his grandfather's memory, amplified and distorted. He pressed his palms against his eyes.

He stood up, his legs shaky, and walked over to the window, staring out at the blurred cityscape. He felt the need to get away, to find a place where he could be alone with his thoughts. He needed to be silent, to not speak, and just *be*.

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