disturbed - Story 33845 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The children's shrieks outside had been escalating for hours. Elias, trying to edit photos, felt his head begin to pound. He rubbed his temples, trying to ward off the pressure building there. It was like a physical assault on his ears.

He went to the window, looking out with a stony face at the children. The noise level was excruciating. He closed his eyes momentarily. When he opened them, his resolution hardened. He reached for the phone.

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