disturbed - Story 33057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped paint and peeling wallpaper of the shop seemed to mock Sarah's distress. She’d been searching for her grandmother’s ring for months, and now, here it was, gleaming in the harsh light of the showcase. It felt as if someone had punched the wind out of her.

A wave of dizziness threatened to overwhelm her. The world spun, and for a moment, she thought she might faint. The room closed in. The past, its memories, felt like a physical weight pressing down on her.

She managed to clear her throat. “Can I… can I see that ring?” she asked, her voice barely audible. Her chest was tight, each breath a struggle. The silence of the shop seemed to amplify her internal turmoil.

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