disturbed - Story 33100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the past settled on Laura like a shroud. The move back was a surrender, and the weight of that fact was almost unbearable.

Her parents’ kindness was a mirror, reflecting back to her the person she didn't want to be. The house itself felt like a prison, each room a reminder of past failures.

She’d taken to staring out the window for hours, the world outside a vibrant, alluring landscape that she felt locked away from. The sound of her mother’s footsteps on the stairs was enough to trigger a rapid heartbeat, a cold sweat, a desperate need to flee.

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