disturbed - Story 33923 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt like an eternity. Ethan tapped his foot impatiently, the rhythmic thud a nervous drumbeat against the silence. Each floor seemed to take an age. He was going to a support group meeting, something he’d previously scoffed at, but now…now he felt compelled.

He saw her as he walked in, already seated. Her back was rigid. Her shoulders were tense. He could feel a magnetic pull drawing him towards her, towards the shared secret that simmered just beneath the surface of his own skin.

“Sarah?” he whispered, his voice cracking. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee. He took a seat next to her anyway.

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