disturbed - Story 33036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always felt like an open book. But this… this was different. Liam read the words, his throat tight, his face pale. The book described the incident with the stray dog, the one he had tried to keep buried. This felt… off. It felt like someone had accessed the core of his being and twisted it. The air was thick with a strange tension. He slowly stood, the book slipping from his numb fingers. He needed to find the person behind this. His fists clenched, nails digging into his palms. He felt a desire to confront this ghost.

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