disturbed - Story 33130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned heavily against the wall, the cold concrete seeping through his jacket. His knuckles were white as he gripped his phone. He was going to miss the championship game, his son's first. He felt like his heart had been ripped out of his chest and stomped on.

He tasted the bitter bile that rose in his throat. He felt the sting of tears in his eyes, but refused to let them fall. The jovial atmosphere of the terminal felt alien and hostile. He wished the ground would open up and swallow him whole.

The image of his son's hopeful face, waiting for him, burned in his mind. He was failing. He felt so utterly, completely alone.

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