disturbed - Story 33538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home felt longer than usual. The radio’s cheerful melodies grated on David’s nerves. He clutched the steering wheel tightly, his knuckles white. The letter had been blunt: a mistake, a reallocation, a scholarship he never rightfully earned. The weight of it pressed down on him, making it hard to breathe. He felt a profound sense of loss, coupled with an unsettling feeling of guilt. He pulled over to the side of the road, the engine of the car silent, and rested his head against the steering wheel.

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