disturbed - Story 33782 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d stumbled upon it by accident, a late-night internet search fueled by insomnia. The house. His house. Now, a "charming craftsman" according to the description. Liam’s jaw clenched. Charming.

He paced his apartment, the listing's images replaying in his mind. He imagined strangers, new owners, walking on the same floors he'd worn bare as a child. A coldness spread through him, making him shiver despite the warm night.

He grabbed his coat and keys. He needed to *see* it. To verify. To… what? He didn't know. The city lights blurred as he drove.

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