disturbed - Story 33788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing had popped up while Michael was aimlessly browsing. The home looked completely different. The new owners had done a lot of renovations. It didn’t feel like home.

He felt a deep sense of wrongness. The cheerful description, the smiling faces in the staged photos, felt like an insult. He rubbed his eyes, trying to clear his vision, but the images swam before him.

He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to weep. He pressed his hand against his mouth, trying to stifle the sound. He had to get away from the computer.

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