disturbed - Story 33479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The name on the package wasn’t familiar. He was quite certain of that. The feeling was a sharp knot in his stomach. He wasn't supposed to get involved in any of this.

He had to get rid of it. He brought the box into the bathroom, feeling his legs grow heavy.

He opened the box, his hands shaking. A single, leather-bound journal. He flipped open the front cover, his breath catching in his throat. The first page was blank, but the scent of aged paper and something else, something metallic and unsettling, filled the room.

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