The family gathered for what should have been a joyous occasion – a birthday celebration. Instead, the air in the room was thick with unspoken tension. Their mother, a devout Catholic her whole life, had decided to embrace Hinduism. Grace felt a stinging in her eyes.

She retreated to the garden, the fragrant jasmine usually calming, was now overwhelming. She paced, her hands wringing. The vibrant colors of the flowers seemed to mock her unease. The feeling in her gut was a knot that she couldn't loosen.

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:
S0.318
ness0.309
无法0.300
😞0.297
worse0.284
Suppressed:
de-0.829
la-0.666
a-0.392
B-0.301
"-0.290