disturbed - Story 33280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The instructions were clear, but his mind refused to cooperate. He felt a prickling sensation across his skin, a warning signal his body was giving. The bright, cheerful atmosphere of the customer service department seemed to press on him, heavy and oppressive.

He found himself avoiding the open floor plan, preferring the isolated cubicle he'd managed to secure. He closed his eyes and inhaled. The aroma of coffee, usually a comfort, now felt like a suffocating blanket.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee. He clenched his fists, forcing himself to remain seated. The weight of the new responsibility settled on him like a shroud. He felt a strange hollowness, a void he couldn't fill.

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