disturbed - Story 33785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A perfect starter home!" The words on the screen grated on her. Emily felt a rising heat in her cheeks. Starter home? It wasn't just a house. It was where she learned to ride her bike, where she skinned her knees, where she spent countless hours dreaming.

She gripped the edge of the table, knuckles white. The listing's cheerful tone felt like a betrayal. She felt a strange buzzing in her ears.

She closed the browser, then immediately reopened it. She needed to look again. Again and again. She needed to *understand*.

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