disturbed - Story 33996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That’s fantastic news, Maya! The university is so impressed!" Her mother’s enthusiastic voice echoed in her ears. Maya had been at the library and had been staring in a daze at a book. She had to pretend to look excited.

The essay, her deepest reflections on childhood, had been chosen as a model. A wave of heat washed over her. She excused herself, claiming the sudden warmth of the building was making her feel faint.

She needed air, to escape the suffocating presence of her words. She stumbled outside, the cool evening breeze doing little to calm the tremor in her hands. The sky was an inky expanse, and it felt like it was closing in on her.

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