disturbed - Story 33278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. A cold wave rushed over him as he processed the information. He sat frozen, unable to feel the chair beneath him.

"You'll love the new team!" Her words, usually pleasant, sounded like a hollow echo in his ears. He wasn't sure he could endure the change.

He spent the rest of the day in a daze, the details of the transfer arrangements a meaningless blur. The world seemed to have tilted on its axis, and he felt himself slipping, unable to regain his balance. He found himself picking at the skin around his nails.

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