He re-read the email, each word twisting the knife further. The words swam before him, like a blurry image. He felt a cold shiver run down his spine. He ran his hand through his hair, tugging at the roots. His fingers trembled as he finally slammed his laptop shut.

He felt a sudden surge of restlessness. He grabbed his keys and rushed out of the house. He drove, not caring where he was going, just needing to escape the suffocating confines of his own thoughts. The highway lights blurred into streaks of color, mirroring the turmoil within.

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