disturbed - Story 33397 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty smell of the secondhand bookstore clung to her clothes as Elena read the letter. It was tucked into a worn copy of *Wuthering Heights*. The letter's contents were an elaborate fantasy, a story of mistaken identity and deception, and it echoed something she was already feeling.

She pressed a hand to her chest, her heart hammering against her ribs. The shop's quiet now felt stifling, the other customers mere shadows. The air grew heavy, almost metallic.

She placed the letter back in the book, then quickly put it back on the shelf. The need to put distance between herself and the book was nearly overwhelming, but the words echoed in her mind.

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