disturbed - Story 33302 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself pacing the cramped confines of his cubicle. The air felt thick, suffocating. David's usual meticulous organization had dissolved into a messy pile of papers. He’d overheard the conversation during the coffee break. Emily, fresh out of college, was earning more than him.

The information had settled in his gut like a lead weight. He kept replaying the scene in his mind, the casual confidence in Emily's voice as she recounted her bonus. The words echoed in his head, a relentless drumbeat.

He kicked a discarded water bottle under his desk, the plastic crinkling loudly in the quiet office. He imagined confronting his boss, demanding an explanation, but the thought brought with it a wave of weakness, a feeling of inadequacy he loathed.

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