disturbed - Story 33638 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the garage was thick with the scent of motor oil and decay. Mark, cleaning up after his father’s passing, discovered an old box. Inside, a letter. It was written by his father to his childhood sweetheart.

His father, the stoic man he'd known, revealed a hidden passion, a life unlived, a path not taken. He felt a disquiet that settled like a stone in his stomach. The words burned.

He slowly moved towards the light of the doorway, his chest heavy. He needed air. He felt the space around him constricting.

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