disturbed - Story 33467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vintage car, his father's pride and joy, was being advertised online. He scrolled through the pictures, each one a stab of pain. He ran a hand across his face, scrubbing at the sweat that had broken out on his forehead.

He remembered the smell of the leather interior, the rumble of the engine, the feeling of freedom. He'd spent countless hours with his father working on the car, sharing stories, forging a bond. Now, this symbol of their shared history was to be sold.

He felt a wave of dizziness, a sensation of being disconnected from reality. He couldn't believe it. He felt like something was being ripped from him. The car - it was more than just metal and wheels.

He closed his laptop, unable to look anymore. He needed to get away, to walk, to scream. The world felt wrong.

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