disturbed - Story 33967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper felt brittle in his grasp. “Go to Burning Man.” The contrast between the words and the person who wrote them was staggering. Emily, his careful, organized, and somewhat uptight Emily. He felt as though the floor had given way beneath him.

He sat heavily on the sofa, the list clutched in his hand. A wave of dizziness washed over him. He felt as if he was in a dream, something unreal, something sinister.

He closed his eyes, his mind reeling. He had to confront her, demand answers. The thought both terrified and invigorated him.

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