disturbed - Story 33400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," Clara muttered, staring at the letter. She'd found it while browsing a bookstore, tucked inside a children's book. The letter, written in a child's handwriting, was a plea for help.

Her stomach lurched. The cheerful illustrations of the book felt mocking. The noise of the busy store faded into a dull hum. She felt suddenly lightheaded.

She needed to get away, to escape the crushing weight of the unknown. She left the book on the counter, fleeing the bookstore as fast as she could.

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