disturbed - Story 33813 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop felt too loud, too bright. He'd seen her business card at the library, tucked between advertisements for tax returns and home renovations. It had taken him a week to work up the nerve to call. Now he was here, three blocks from her office, fighting the urge to flee.

He ordered a black coffee, his hands shaking so hard the cup rattled against the saucer. He imagined her sitting in that office, the same calculated gaze he remembered from the school hallways, dissecting him. Picking him apart.

He spilled the coffee as he stood to leave. He just could not get it together. He decided not to go. He needed to avoid her.

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