The vibration, a constant, low thrum, settled in the pit of his stomach. It made his teeth ache. Richard, who worked from home, found it impossible to focus. His carefully constructed world, his refuge, felt like it was dissolving around him.

He shut his laptop with a snap. He tried to read, but the words blurred before his eyes. The hammering reverberated through his skull, each blow a personal affront. He just wanted it to stop, to go away. He didn't know how to make it end.

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