disturbed - Story 33906 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No," Amelia whispered, the word barely audible. The email's stark wording remained imprinted on her mind, repeating with relentless precision. *Financial difficulties… permanent closure.* She slammed her laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the silence of her dorm room. The room, usually a source of comfort, now felt like a prison. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm that mirrored the chaotic thoughts swirling in her head. She paced the small space, her movements jerky and erratic, as if trying to outrun an unseen pursuer.

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