disturbed - Story 33106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself constantly checking the time. Every tick of the clock was another grain of sand slipping through the hourglass, another moment stolen from him. The new guy, Ben, was a bit too friendly, a bit too chatty. He couldn't stand the incessant inquiries.

He deliberately gave him the wrong information about a key client, a tiny act of rebellion. He didn't know why he did it. The guilt that followed was almost satisfying.

The coffee tasted bitter, metallic. He felt a deep, pervasive sense of weariness, a bone-deep exhaustion he couldn’t shake.

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