disturbed - Story 33266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Next!" The coach's voice sliced through the tension in the room. Sarah watched the last gymnast walk away, her face a mask. Each step was a countdown. The air seemed to grow thick. She could feel the pulse in her throat hammering against her skin. Then the dreaded words came.

The coach’s expression was carefully neutral. His words didn't register. Everything went blank. It was the same as before, a repeat of the same disappointment.

She stood frozen, the silence amplifying the thumping in her ears. The other gymnasts milled about, their voices a discordant symphony. Her carefully practiced smile felt like a grotesque mockery. Everything felt unreal.

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