disturbed - Story 33349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't want the bear. He hadn't wanted to come to the yard sale. His wife had dragged him. And now, there it was: Barnaby, looking more pathetic than ever. The stuffing was spilling out, and one of his legs was barely attached.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable anger. He bargained aggressively, driving the price down until the elderly woman selling it seemed close to tears. He walked away with Barnaby, a sense of triumph warring with a profound unease.

He took Barnaby to the basement, placing him on the cold concrete floor. He paced, his hands clenched into fists, a silent scream building within him. He felt as if something precious, something he hadn’t even known he’d missed, had been irrevocably lost.

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