disturbed - Story 33832 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always been so calm, so predictable. Now, Margaret felt like she was looking at a stranger. The bank statement, tucked away in the back of a drawer in the guest room, revealed a hidden fortune. Her husband, David, had accumulated a sum that eclipsed their shared savings by a significant margin.

Her breath hitched in her chest. She re-read the numbers, each digit a tiny hammer blow against her equilibrium. She slammed the drawer shut, a sharp crack echoing through the otherwise quiet house. Anger coiled in her stomach, a tight, burning knot.

She found herself pacing the living room, her steps erratic and jerky. The comfortable furniture, the familiar photographs, seemed to mock her. Was everything a lie? Had she been living a carefully constructed illusion? The thought sent a fresh wave of nausea rising within 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