The cricket pitch, normally a place of comfort, felt ominous. He was a bowler, a specialist in spin, yet they requested he now bat higher up the order. His chest felt constricted. The thought of facing the fast bowlers, of being vulnerable to a bouncer, made his stomach churn. The sun was hot, and sweat beaded on his forehead, but he shivered. The ball seemed so small, the stumps so large. His hands were shaking; he clenched them into fists, trying to regain control.

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