disturbed - Story 33428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate invitation lay open on the coffee table. Inside, a picture of her younger self, smiling brightly, stared back at her. The image sparked a wave of internal conflict. "They’re going to be disappointed," she muttered under her breath. A bead of sweat trickled down her temple. The words echoed in her head, amplifying her feeling of dread. She rose from the couch, unable to stand the oppressive weight of the past any longer. She moved to the window and stared at the setting sun, finding no solace in its beauty.

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