disturbed - Story 33534 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the park bench, the autumn leaves swirling around his feet, a vibrant, uncaring spectacle. The revelation from the bursar’s office left him feeling hollowed out. The scholarship that he had thought he had earned with his late nights of studying was not his. He kept replaying the conversation in his head, each word a cruel reminder of his misplaced hope. He kicked at a loose stone, watching it skitter across the path. He wanted to scream.

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