disturbed - Story 33566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced his apartment, muttering under his breath. The date, a flashing neon sign in his mind. Thomas’s birthday party. His own. The same day. A cold sweat trickled down his back, leaving him chilled.

He checked his phone, then checked it again. No messages. He felt a desperate urge to reach out, to call, to somehow ensure that his guests would still show up to his party. His hand hovered over the phone, hesitating.

He ran a hand across his forehead, trying to clear his head. The thought of Thomas, of everyone choosing Thomas, sent a shiver of dread through him. He felt like his stomach was turning inside out.

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