disturbed - Story 33794 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“In the basement,” the detective had said, his voice flat. “The body was discovered in the basement.” Now, Frank couldn't bring himself to go down there. The thought of it sent a cold wave across his skin.

He’d planned to renovate the space, to create a home theater. Now, the basement door remained closed, a looming portal to a past he didn’t want to know.

He tried to focus on something else, anything else, but the image of the dark, damp space, and the unspeakable act that had occurred there, kept creeping into his thoughts. He avoided the basement entrance.

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