disturbed - Story 33896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the ceiling, the stark white a painful blankness mirroring his mental state. An F. He couldn't understand it. He’d studied diligently. He’d understood the material. He felt a deep, twisting knot in his gut, a feeling that defied description. He sat up, the sheets tangled around his legs. The world, usually so clear, so manageable, suddenly felt warped and unsteady. He swung his legs over the edge of the bed and stood, finding himself oddly rooted to the floor.

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