disturbed - Story 33008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Wow,” her friend had said, pointing at the photo. “That’s… intense.” The artist, Elena, found herself unable to speak. Intense didn't even begin to cover it. The tattoo, a near-perfect reproduction of her intricate line drawing, made her skin crawl.

She canceled all her plans for the day, retreating to her apartment. The familiar comfort of her own space offered little solace. She paced, restless, agitated, her thoughts a whirlwind of confusion and anger.

She kept replaying the image in her head, dissecting it, analyzing it, searching for some explanation that would alleviate the pressure building inside her. But the more she thought, the worse it got.

Emotion: disturbed

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.97 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.60

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion disturbed. 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 disturbed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the disturbed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the disturbed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.318
`ness`	0.309
`无法`	0.300
`😞`	0.297
`worse`	0.284

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.829
`la`	-0.666
`a`	-0.392
`B`	-0.301
`"`	-0.290