disturbed - Story 33888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was in full swing, music blaring from Mr. Davies' backyard. He’d always been a solitary figure. Now, the lawn was a sea of champagne flutes and designer clothes. He watched from his kitchen window, feeling a tightening in his chest.

His gaze swept over his own backyard – the chipped paint on the fence, the overgrown weeds, the rusty barbecue. He felt a wave of nausea roll through him.

He slammed his fist on the counter. Why hadn't he seen it before? The expensive car, the carefully cultivated air of quiet contentment. It was all a carefully constructed performance. He felt a deep, unsettling bitterness.

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