disturbed - Story 33109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew this was coming, but he wasn’t ready. The announcement felt like a death sentence. To be replaced, to be discarded, was a bitter pill. He found himself clenching his fists under the table as he explained the basics to his replacement, a young man named David.

He deliberately skipped over important details, hoping to make David look incompetent. He hated himself for it, but he couldn't help it. His heart pounded in his chest, a frantic drumbeat of resentment and fear.

That night, he couldn't sleep. The ceiling seemed to be closing in on him.

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