The moment Evelyn walked in, she saw it. The ring. Her grandmother's. It was a beautiful, elegant piece, now reduced to a commodity. She felt a profound sense of wrongness, as though a sacred object had been desecrated. The shop was a dark cavern of forgotten things.

Her vision blurred. A sense of unreality washed over her. She felt disconnected, detached from her surroundings. The air felt thin, difficult to draw into her lungs.

She moved towards it, her legs feeling shaky. Each step was an effort. The closer she got, the more intense the feeling became, almost unbearable. She felt a deep, profound sadness, a sense of loss that cut to the core.

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