disturbed - Story 33914 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived, a digital slap in the face. “Regarding the tree…” it began, the subject line a stark declaration. He hadn't wanted to open it, hadn’t wanted to even *think* about it, but the red unread notification had been mocking him all morning.

His heart pounded against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat. He deleted the email immediately.

His fingers itched, his mind reeling. He needed to be anywhere but here, anywhere but in this space, in the face of this thing that threatened to become. He paced his apartment. The thought of the empty space, the emptiness left in its wake, triggered a wave of nausea.

He felt the sudden, desperate urge to flee the apartment.

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