disturbed - Story 33682 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found herself checking the garage door, late at night, a habit that began subtly, then grew into a ritual. Her daughter, Maya, who had inherited her love for restoring vintage motorcycles, spent hours in there. The rhythmic clang of metal on metal was once soothing. Now, it prickled her skin.

It was the quiet moments that got to her the most. Maya, completely alone in the space, welding, filing, absorbed. It made Amelia’s stomach churn.

One evening, Amelia found herself standing in the doorway, unseen, while Maya worked. The air was thick with the scent of fuel and steel. Maya was humming. The sight of her daughter’s focused silhouette bathed in the warm light was wrong. Amelia quickly stepped away and closed the door.

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