disturbed - Story 33107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The conference room felt like a pressure cooker. The air was stagnant, heavy with unspoken tension. He was supposed to be mentoring this new employee, Liam, but every forced smile felt like a grimace. He felt like a condemned man, walking his own execution.

"So, the sales projections for Q3…" He trailed off, unable to meet Liam's eyes. He felt a sudden, irrational urge to throw the presentation at the wall, to shatter the perfect PowerPoint slides.

He had to get out, he thought. He had to run. He felt a rising panic that clawed at his throat.

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