disturbed - Story 33550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world contracted around him, making it hard to breathe. Mark's gaze was frozen on the screen, scrolling through his son, Ethan's, hidden Instagram account. The things he saw felt sharp, painful, and foreign.

He stood up, paced the living room, hands clenching and unclenching. He needed to do something, anything. The familiar objects in the room - the sofa, the television - all seemed to be mocking him.

He felt an immense, crushing weight in his chest. A feeling of dread took hold, making his insides tighten. He felt a desperate urge to run, to escape the suffocating reality that had just been revealed.

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