disturbed - Story 33563 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you sure about this?" Maya asked, her voice thin, barely audible above the rhythmic clinking of the ice dispenser. Her friend, Chloe, beamed, oblivious to Maya's internal turmoil. Chloe’s party. Maya’s. Same day.

The ice, a constant, cold presence against the back of her hand, numbed her skin. A tremor ran through her, leaving her suddenly chilled despite the warmth of the room. She felt a burning sensation, as if her chest had been hollowed out and filled with ash.

She busied herself arranging the drinks, though she found herself fumbling, dropping a glass. Chloe chuckled. Maya forced a smile, but it felt brittle, likely a complete failure. She felt like a puppet.

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