The scent of freshly cut wood assaulted Eleanor’s nostrils, a sharp, unfamiliar odor that made her feel sick. She pressed her hand against her chest, trying to regulate her erratic heartbeat. The fence, it was growing quickly, a dark, wooden wall.

She hadn’t felt this unsettled in years. It was as if something vital within her was being cut off, something she hadn't known was there until now. The sight of it made her feel claustrophobic, like she couldn't breathe.

She backed away from the window, her gaze darting around the room, as if seeking an escape. Everything seemed different now. Everything felt wrong.

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