disturbed - Story 33668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator was a steel cage, and the air within was getting thin. Brian ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. He couldn't stop fidgeting, unable to stay still. The silence was deafening, amplified by the confined space.

"Anything?" Sarah, his coworker, asked, her voice a strained whisper.

He shook his head, unable to form words. He felt his chest tighten, a suffocating pressure that made it hard to breathe. He stared at the floor, seeing only the dust motes dancing in the faint light.

He began to rock back and forth, a repetitive motion that seemed to soothe and yet heighten his feeling of panic. He felt a powerful urge to shatter everything around him.

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