disturbed - Story 33096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just breathe," her father said, his voice unusually soft. Mark felt the words as a pressure, a physical demand he couldn't meet. The house, always a haven, now loomed, a physical manifestation of his anxieties.

He started drinking, not to get drunk, but to quiet the constant churn in his stomach. The taste of whiskey did nothing. His parents’ concern was visible, a heavy cloak he could not shake off.

He felt a compulsion to rearrange things, moving furniture around, as if creating order outside could somehow alleviate the chaos within. The silence felt oppressive, filled with the unspoken words he couldn't articulate.

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