disturbed - Story 33490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the afternoon was crushing. The heat seemed to amplify the anxiety that threatened to overwhelm her. As she watched the bulldozer’s relentless progress, she instinctively reached for the worn, leather-bound book that had always been by her side. Its pages, filled with handwritten notes and sketches of the house, were her only comfort. She recalled the day she received the book, and how she felt so safe in her childhood home. Her chest felt constricted. The house was her history, and it was about to be destroyed.

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