disturbed - Story 33769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I stood there, feeling the wind cut through me, as if the loss were a physical injury. The vibrant green of the canopy, the rustling leaves that always felt like a greeting... gone. A tremor ran through me, starting in my legs and spreading upward, making me feel unsteady. I clenched my fists until my knuckles were white. It was more than a tree. It was a touchstone, a link to a time when things felt simpler and safer. The world felt dangerous, all of a sudden.

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