The pages were starting to feel like sandpaper against her skin. Evelyn felt a prickling sensation all over. The book revealed secrets she’d guarded with her life. Her life, suddenly, felt like a public spectacle, a show for strangers to gawk at. She felt a rising tide of fury. She wanted to tear it apart, shred it, burn it to ashes. Instead, she methodically began turning pages, searching for the end, desperate to find the person responsible.

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