disturbed - Story 33560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Come on, Sam! A guinea pig will be great company!" Maya's voice, usually a source of comfort, now grated on him. He felt his muscles tense, a knot forming in his stomach. The apartment felt suddenly small, suffocating.

He started to avoid her, finding solace in the stark, silent library. The hum of the fluorescent lights and the hushed whispers of the readers were the only sounds that seemed to soothe his racing thoughts. The idea of constant noise, the responsibility, filled him with a sense of dread.

He felt a growing detachment from everything around him, the world viewed through a distorted lens. He couldn't shake the feeling of being trapped.

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