disturbed - Story 33943 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So," he said, his voice casual, leaning against the kitchen counter as she stirred the pasta. "How was your day?" He didn’t know, she realized, her heart thumping against her ribs. He had no idea what she had found hidden in his desk drawer.

Her hand trembled as she placed the spoon back into the pot. Suddenly, the aroma of garlic and basil seemed acrid, the familiar comfort of their shared evening meal tainted.

She couldn't meet his eyes, feeling the weight of the unspoken accusation settle upon her. She began to feel as though she was being watched, dissected, not through a novel, but a one-way mirror.

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