disturbed - Story 33044 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant racket was driving him mad, he thought, picking a dead bug off of the window sill. It was like living inside a drum. The drilling. The hammering. The incessant chatter of the construction crew. John had always valued his routine, the predictable rhythm of his days. This was an assault on that.

He slammed his fist on the table, startling himself. The movement left him feeling oddly drained. He needed something, anything, to quiet the chaos. He turned and grabbed his keys, yanking open the front door. He would go for a drive, far away, even if only for an hour.

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