The house seemed to mock her, its walls whispering secrets she didnโ€™t want to know. The constant tick of the grandfather clock in the hallway was driving her mad. The sense of unease had been there since the first day, but now, it was a searing agony.

Sheโ€™d found the room behind a painting in the dining room, a small, dark space with a single, unadorned wooden table. She didn't want to go inside, but she couldn't stop herself.

Her skin prickled with goosebumps. This room, this house, it all felt wrong. Her vision blurred, and the world seemed to tilt. A wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped the edge of the doorway, fighting the urge to flee.

Emotion: distressed

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.39 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.52

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion distressed. 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 distressed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the distressed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the distressed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
๐Ÿ˜ฃ0.304
๐Ÿ˜ž0.296
worse0.291
๐Ÿ˜–0.285
๐Ÿ˜ฐ0.276
Suppressed:
de-0.457
la-0.349
:)-0.239
B-0.232
happy-0.229