He felt a cold sweat prickle his skin. He'd never told anyone about the incident with the red car, the one he swore he'd buried deep. But there it was, on page 142. The accident, the fear, the guilt – all laid bare. John ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. This wasn't possible. He scanned the rest of the book, his eyes darting frantically. The author, whoever they were, had chronicled his life with an unsettling accuracy. A wave of nausea rolled over him. He needed to get out, to breathe. He threw the book against the wall and left.

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