disturbed - Story 33012 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“But *why*?” David asked, his voice cracking. He ran a hand through his already messy hair, the action frantic and repetitive. His sister, Sarah, sat across from him, serene in her newfound saffron robes. She spoke of finding peace, of understanding the divine in a new way. He didn't understand.

He couldn't meet her eyes. The air in the coffee shop, once a comforting haven, felt thick and heavy. He picked at a crumb on the table, then another, a nervous tick he hadn’t displayed in years. His stomach churned. He felt as if a vital part of his life, a shared history, had just been ripped away.

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