disturbed - Story 33738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The beer tasted like ash in his mouth. He’d agreed to meet with Mark, to celebrate the new job, but the enthusiasm felt forced, a hollow imitation of genuine happiness. He’d felt a sinking sensation when Mark shared the news, a slow, heavy descent into a pool of… something he couldn’t name.

He stared at Mark, the bright smile, the eager eyes, and felt a surge of… something he didn't want to define. He reached for another pretzel, his hand trembling slightly.

He forced a laugh at Mark's joke, the sound hollow in his own ears. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to pick a fight, to disrupt the easygoing camaraderie. He swallowed hard, trying to regain control.

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