disturbed - Story 33368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card lay on the kitchen table, a bright yellow rectangle in the morning light. It was a cartoon drawing of a smiling sun, and the words “Happy Birthday!” were scrawled in a messy handwriting. He didn't recognize the handwriting. He didn't recognize the card.

He poured himself a cup of coffee, his hand shaking slightly. The familiar act, usually a comfort, felt now like a betrayal of his inner state. The aroma of the coffee, normally invigorating, now made him feel uneasy.

He spent the morning in a state of hyper-awareness, jumpy and on edge. He flinched at every sudden sound. He felt like his own home was no longer a safe space.

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