disturbed - Story 33416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the money, a small fortune. A flicker of something crossed his face, not elation, but something more akin to fear. He’d never seen so much cash in his life. The weight of it felt oppressive, as if it was pushing him downwards.

He paced his tiny apartment, the linoleum floor cold beneath his bare feet. The walls seemed to close in, the air thick and hard to breathe. He kept clenching and unclenching his fists.

The phone rang, a shrill, unwelcome sound. He jumped, his heart hammering against his ribs. He didn't answer.

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