disturbed - Story 33167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colours of the wedding felt harsh and artificial to Olivia. Seeing Ethan, her ex-boyfriend, amidst the celebration, sent a jolt of anxiety through her. She felt like her own skin wasn't quite hers. She clenched her hands into fists, trying to regain a sense of control.

She took a deep breath, fighting the urge to flee. The upbeat music seemed to taunt her. She found herself acutely aware of every detail: the glittering chandeliers, the cheerful chatter, the way her dress felt restricting. She felt a familiar hollowness in her chest.

He caught her eye, and she quickly looked away, feeling a searing burn behind her eyes. Her vision blurred, and the world began to seem strangely muted. She retreated towards the quieter edge of the room, hoping to find a moment's peace away from the uncomfortable presence.

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