disturbed - Story 33600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself staring at the unfinished manuscript, the words now mocking him from the screen. He slammed the laptop shut, the sound echoing in the otherwise silent room. His chest felt constricted, as if a heavy weight had settled upon it. He needed air, needed to escape the suffocating grip of disappointment. He grabbed his keys and bolted out the door, the chill night air doing little to soothe the fire within.

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