disturbed - Story 33068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with an unseen tension. John stared at the letter, its crisp formality a brutal contrast to the chaos inside him. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes, a sensation that spread down his neck and into his shoulders.

He began to clear the table, methodically stacking the plates, wiping down the counters. He did it with a robotic efficiency, not thinking, just acting. The mundane tasks offered a small measure of control, a fragile barrier against the torrent of feelings threatening to overwhelm him.

He put on the coffee, ignoring the burnt smell. It was wrong to have coffee now. It was never wrong to have coffee.

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