disturbed - Story 33925 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The subway car was a steel cage, trapping Elias with the suffocating weight of his own thoughts. He stared at the floor, the chipped tiles blurring into a meaningless pattern. Each stop brought a new wave of bodies, each face a stranger, yet he felt a strange kinship with the woman who just got on, across the aisle from him.

Her posture was the same as his. Her gaze was averted. He knew the silent struggle she was fighting. He recognized the invisible burden they both carried. He was afraid. He was intrigued. He wanted to scream.

He risked a glance. Their eyes met, and in that fleeting moment, he knew everything.

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