disturbed - Story 33043 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic thump, thump, thump was like a relentless metronome, marking time, counting down to… what? Sarah didn’t know. She clutched her pillow to her ears, but the sound still resonated through her. It was in the walls, in the floorboards.

She found herself pacing the living room, her steps quick and agitated. The sunlight, usually a comfort, felt harsh, highlighting the dust motes dancing in the air. Each vibration sent a fresh wave of unease crashing over her.

She found herself, inexplicably, gripping the antique clock on the mantelpiece, staring at its ticking hands. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Perfectly even, and yet she could not stand it.

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