disturbed - Story 33279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was as if someone had pulled a rug out from under him. He stumbled, feeling a dizzying sensation of falling. His new colleagues were friendly, even welcoming, but their enthusiasm felt artificial, misplaced.

He stared at his reflection in the tinted window of the new office. His face looked pale, unfamiliar. He ran a hand over his stubble, a gesture he hadn't realized he made when uneasy.

He felt like a stranger in a foreign land. The language was the same, but the unspoken rules had completely changed. He was adrift, and the shore seemed miles away.

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