disturbed - Story 33204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The mechanic had assured her it was fine, a simple tune-up. Now, standing on the curb, staring at the empty patch of gravel where her truck had been, Evelyn's carefully constructed world started to unravel. Her jaw clenched so tight her teeth ached. She felt a visceral thrum of anxiety deep in her sternum. The familiar routine of her day – the drive to work, the errands, the comforting hum of the engine – was gone, replaced by a void that threatened to swallow her whole.

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