disturbed - Story 33578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was a blur. The familiar route, once comforting, felt hostile. The radio blared a cheerful tune, a jarring contrast to the turmoil inside him. He gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were white. He should have known. He should have anticipated the possibility, the probability even, that Sarah wouldn’t remember him, the hours in the tree house, the inside jokes, the scraped knees. A wave of exhaustion washed over him. The world felt like it was spinning.

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