disturbed - Story 33236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted, as if seen through a thick pane of glass. Chloe sat in her room, a blanket pulled over her head. The online publication felt like a personal attack. She didn't want to see anyone, talk to anyone, or even be seen.

Her mother's gentle knock at the door seemed like a threat. She didn't respond. The world outside, the noise, the brightness, the people... it all felt utterly overwhelming.

She curled tighter, pressing her face into the scratchy wool. The darkness offered a small measure of protection, a temporary refuge from the glaring spotlight.

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