disturbed - Story 33193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lump in her throat wouldn’t budge. "Mrs. Peterson," her daughter, Chloe, had chirped, "she's so nice!" The words hung in the air, mocking the tight knot of unease twisting in her stomach. The same Mrs. Peterson who, decades ago, had seemed to single her out for a kind of… quiet criticism.

She had the sudden urge to look through her old yearbooks. She hadn't opened one in years. The thought of confronting the past, in the form of a gentle-faced teacher, was overwhelming. She imagined a scenario where she and Mrs. Peterson were forced to converse.

She considered dropping off an anonymous gift at the school. Something to subtly assess the woman's reaction, even if it was a small step.

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