disturbed - Story 33343 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight felt harsh on Elias’s skin. He was looking for a gardening bench, but then he saw it: Mr. Snuggles. His gut lurched. The bear looked exactly as it had, with a missing arm and a crooked smile.

"Ten dollars," the woman selling it said, her voice cheerful. He didn't bargain. He paid, his hand feeling clammy as he handed over the money. He couldn't meet her eyes.

Back at his apartment, he placed Mr. Snuggles on his living room floor. He circled it, studying it. He kept muttering to himself, his words incomprehensible. He felt a powerful urge to…what? He couldn’t name it. His breath came in shallow, rapid pants. He turned the television on, but the images blurred, the sound a meaningless drone.

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