disturbed - Story 33382 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael stared at the profile on his laptop. The same quirky bio, the same shared passion for obscure indie films. He’d been so happy, so sure. But now a hollow ache resonated within him. He sat frozen, unable to stand, unable to move.

He pushed his chair back from the desk, and then slammed it down again.

He slammed his fist into the desk, then pulled back his hand.

He ran a hand over his hair.

He found himself walking back and forth, from the window to the door and back again.

He typed a message and deleted it immediately. He needed to talk to Emily, to understand. He opened her most recent message, and then closed it. He began to feel a sensation that caused his teeth to clench.

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