disturbed - Story 33833 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just a little something extra," he'd always said, whenever she suggested a vacation, a splurge. Now, she understood the source of the "something extra." The online banking details, open on her laptop, revealed a substantial account she had no knowledge of. Sarah felt a tremor run through her body, her hands clenching into fists.

She closed her eyes, trying to calm herself, but her heart hammered in her chest. She thought of their anniversary dinner last week, him raising a toast to their shared future. It all seemed so… hollow now.

The cheerful sunlight streaming through the window seemed to mock her. She felt like she was going to be sick. Picking up her phone, she quickly texted her best friend, "Can you talk? Like, right now?"

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