The silence in the small apartment was almost deafening. Maria stared at the ceiling, the familiar cracks and imperfections now seeming to taunt her. She found it difficult to breathe, her chest heavy. The air felt thin and cold.

She wanted to scream. She wanted to rage. Instead, she just lay there, paralyzed by the weight of disappointment. She had dreams, goals. Now? Uncertainty. The future stretched out before her, a vast and unforgiving landscape.

She pulled the covers over her head, shutting out the world.

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