disturbed - Story 33997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s words, "an exemplary piece," echoed in Elias’s ears as he read the email. His essay had been selected. He had worked so hard. But now, all he felt was a disquiet he didn't quite understand.

He clicked the link, his fingers hovering over the mouse. He saw it: his essay, his words. He was unable to read the words. He felt his face flush.

He abruptly closed the document, turning away from his computer. The world felt muffled, as if seen through a thick pane of glass. He went to bed immediately.

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