disturbed - Story 33410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in her chest was unbearable. Every shadow in the hallway seemed to stretch out, to reach for her. Alice slammed the door to her grandmother's bedroom shut.

She spun around, scanning the room as if an unseen threat was about to emerge. Her hands began to tremble.

She needed to get out of the house, to escape this growing pressure. Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. She ran to the front door, desperate for the release of open 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