disturbed - Story 33245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's calm demeanor grated on Sarah. The air in the office felt close, stifling. The news hadn't sunk in yet, but the seed of unease had been planted. Everything felt off-kilter, like her reality was now built on a foundation of sand.

At home, she couldn't keep her focus on anything. The television remained on but the images didn’t register. Her hands were ice-cold as she made a cup of tea, and when she tried to drink it, it tasted like ash in her mouth.

She kept checking her reflection. She found herself picking at the skin on her fingers, pulling until they were raw. A constant, low thrum of anxiety vibrated inside her.

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