disturbed - Story 33297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant balloons, bought with such enthusiasm, now appeared deflated and sad, lying limp on the floor. He'd spent the afternoon stringing them up, envisioning the joy they would bring. The realization settled on him like a shroud, heavy and suffocating. He went into the kitchen, his movements jerky, and poured himself a large glass of whiskey, the sharp scent momentarily piercing the gloom that had settled over him.

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