disturbed - Story 33269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm sorry, Liam," the coach said, his voice flat. Liam had been expecting this since the second round of tryouts. Every practice session since then had been an exercise in agony. Now it was official: he wouldn't be on the team.

Liam walked away, his head pounding. The world swam. He fumbled with the clasp of his bag, his hands clumsy. He hated the feeling that washed over him. The bitter taste. The gnawing emptiness.

He walked past the gym, past the field, past the memories. He felt like a ghost, fading away, becoming invisible. Each step was a physical struggle, each breath a reminder of his inadequacy.

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