disturbed - Story 33607 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph showed his grandmother, vibrant and young, posing with a motorcycle. A motorcycle that no one in the family had ever mentioned. The stories about her life always painted her as a homebody, a devoted wife and mother. Yet, here was this picture, hinting at a hidden wildness.

John felt a strange pressure in his chest. He didn't know how to process this new information. He felt a desire to defend the stories he'd grown up with, but the photographic evidence was undeniable. It felt like a betrayal. A betrayal of the image he had of her.

He paced the room, unable to settle. The world around him seemed to morph into a confusing blur of color and shape. He had a sudden urgent need to scream.

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