disturbed - Story 33485 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of dust and decay filled him. It was a tangible thing, clinging to his skin like a shroud. David picked a loose piece of brick, fiddling with it, unable to look directly at the house. A wave of nausea rolled over him. He focused on the brick's imperfections, trying to distract himself from the approaching drone of the machines. The house’s facade, the scene of countless childhood memories, was about to become nothing more than rubble.

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