disturbed - Story 33836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The figures on the screen blurred as tears welled in Maria's eyes. It wasn't the amount of money; it was the clandestine nature of it all. Her husband, Thomas, had been quietly accumulating a fortune, without a word to her. She felt a visceral discomfort, like a noxious gas had filled the room.

She looked around their apartment, her eyes scrutinizing every detail. The framed photographs, the shared memories, the objects that defined their life together. Were these just props in a carefully orchestrated play? She wanted to smash something, scream.

She started pacing, her movements agitated, restless. The sunlight outside felt inadequate, the world outside, wrong. She felt a profound sense of isolation, even within their shared space. Grabbing her purse, she stormed out the door, the flimsy lock barely registering as she slammed it behind 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