disturbed - Story 33529 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report flashed across the television screen, a headline screaming the truth: "Famous Author, Alan Finch, Accused of Plagiarism." Maya recognized the words used in the article. They were her words. Her story.

She switched off the TV, the sudden silence deafening. She felt a numbness creep over her, a detachment from her own body. She sat motionless on the couch, staring at her hands as if they were alien objects.

She rose, mechanically, and wandered into the kitchen. She grabbed a glass and filled it with water, but as she brought it to her lips, her hand trembled, spilling the water onto the counter. She felt a cold dread rising.

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