disturbed - Story 33777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old bookshop felt stuffy and close. Samuel, slumped on a stool, kept glancing at the door, hoping his sister, Grace, wouldn't come back. She had inherited the family's vast financial portfolio, a life of luxury ahead of her. He, however, got the bookshop.

He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he couldn't control. The books seemed to stare at him, their titles whispering dark secrets.

He felt a sudden, suffocating tightness in his chest. He stumbled to the front window and leaned his forehead against the glass, seeking release.

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