disturbed - Story 33891 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper crackled in Elias’s trembling hands. An F. He stared at it, the red ink a monstrous, mocking presence against the clean white. His stomach lurched. He’d poured over the text, stayed up nights, even sacrificed precious basketball practice for this. He reread the professor's comments, each one a tiny stab wound to his ego. He couldn’t breathe right. He felt like his chest was being squeezed in a vise. He crumpled the paper, the sound a sharp snap in the otherwise quiet library.

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