disturbed - Story 33708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The casual mention of "Camp Silver Creek" by her coworker, Ben, made Maria freeze. She’d tried to bury those summers, lock them away. The past was like a hidden wound, always threatening to bleed. A feeling of icy dread consumed her, and her face went numb.

“Camp Silver Creek was the best!” Ben declared, his face alight. “Remember the counselors? The archery? Good times, right?”

Maria averted her gaze, her hands trembling. She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. Every happy memory he described felt like a lie. The sound of his voice was jarring. She couldn't breathe.

She excused herself and went to the water cooler, her hands shaking so badly that she couldn't fill the cup. The taste of the water felt metallic. She had to get away, disappear. She decided to go home.

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