disturbed - Story 33856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Travel the world.” The first item on the list stared back at him. He felt pinned down, rooted to the spot. The mundane reality of his life, his job, his routine, suddenly felt hollow, pointless. He ran a hand over his face, his skin prickling with an unfamiliar sensation. He threw the list onto the table, the action a violent expulsion of his inner unease. The silence that followed was deafening, amplifying the frantic rhythm of his heartbeat. He felt trapped, tethered to a life that no longer resonated with him.

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