disturbed - Story 33198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived with the casual announcement, "Mrs. Miller is my teacher now, Dad!" It triggered a wave of nausea that had him reaching for the nearest chair. Mrs. Miller, who had always seemed to see right through him, exposing his every flaw.

He found himself pacing the kitchen, unable to find a comfortable stillness. He pictured the classroom, the same desks, the same oppressive atmosphere. He felt a frantic need to shield his son from the teacher's gaze.

He considered moving his son to a different school, even though it wasn't the best option.

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