disturbed - Story 33866 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A small, carved wooden bird arrived in Ms. Carter’s mailbox. It was intricately detailed, and she recognized the style immediately: Michael, a former student, had been a brilliant woodworker. He'd also been painfully shy, prone to outbursts.

She touched the smooth wood, running her fingers over the tiny feathers. She felt her pulse quicken. The bird stared up at her with a vacant gaze, its wood eyes unblinking. The way the wood felt under her fingertips wasn't right.

She carried the bird inside her house. She then sat and stared at it for hours.

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