disturbed - Story 33177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a punch to the gut. The elaborate tales, the late nights 'working on huge projects' -- it was all a fabrication. Sarah found out that Greg, her boyfriend, wasn't a CEO of a booming company, but a desk clerk at a motel. She sat on the couch, the cushions suddenly feeling hard and unyielding.

Her breath hitched in her chest. She had woven a reality around Greg, building her dreams upon a foundation of sand. She found herself clutching a pillow, squeezing it with frantic force. The room spun around her, and she stood up, needing to move, to do something other than sit and think about this.

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