disturbed - Story 33459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The confirmation arrived. The ancestry tests revealed adoption, a secret kept for decades. Mark felt a chill. He felt his life had been a carefully constructed illusion. His world wobbled.

He started drinking, something he rarely did. The alcohol only seemed to magnify his unease. The faces he saw in the mirror seemed foreign, not belonging to him. He found himself avoiding his family.

He stared at his hands. They were the same, but they felt different. He couldn’t look at pictures without feeling a pang of something he couldn't name. He felt adrift. He tried to read, but the words blurred. The world lost its focus.

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