disturbed - Story 33628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chill snaked up Olivia’s spine when she saw the alert: "Mr. Garcia started following you." She had a lot of opinions and shared them freely on her profile. She often voiced strong views, not always the most popular ones. Now her voice felt hollow.

She scrolled through her feed, cringing at her own words. She felt a powerful urge to delete everything, to scrub her online presence clean. Her hands shook as she started the process.

The next day, she walked through the school halls with a newfound self-consciousness. She flinched when Mr. Garcia walked past, feeling his gaze on her, assessing her. The color drained from her face.

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