disturbed - Story 33960 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The time capsule was unearthed by a team of archeologists. He saw his name and birthdate etched on the box, broadcast on the news. He felt a chill despite the warm weather.

He travelled to the dig site. He was granted access to the contents. Inside, he found a collection of his artwork, some photographs, and a locked diary. He felt a pang of fear and the urge to run.

He knew it was his, yet the images and words felt foreign and confusing, the diary held the key to a door he couldn't find. He felt like a stranger in his own life.

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