disturbed - Story 33758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate script seemed to mock her. The elegant flourishes, the carefully chosen phrases, felt like a deliberate act of cruelty. This letter, a balm for their conscience, reopened the wound that had finally begun to scab over.

She went for a walk, the fresh air unable to clear the fog in her brain. She walked, and walked, and walked, the distance blurring into a vast, meaningless expanse. Her breath was shallow, her heart beat unevenly.

When she came home, she found herself staring at her reflection in the mirror, searching for any sign of her younger self, the self that had been wounded, the self that had been betrayed. The self that would never truly heal.

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