disturbed - Story 33916 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So… about the tree…" The words of the new neighbor, Mr. Garcia, hung in the air, heavy and unwelcome. Sarah sat frozen on the patio chair, the garden tools abandoned at her feet.

She found herself staring at the tree, her gaze locked on its sturdy trunk. It seemed to lean towards her, a silent, knowing presence. An icy wave washed over her, chilling her to the bone.

Her hands began to tremble. Her mouth was dry. She ran her tongue over her lips. The air felt thin, difficult to breathe.

She couldn’t speak. She could only stare, and feel the world tilting.

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