He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. It was a digital assault. The accusations, stark and accusatory, reverberated through his mind. His hands trembled as he reread the damning paragraphs, each word a condemnation.

He stumbled to the window, the fresh air doing little to soothe his rising anxiety. The world outside looked distorted, the familiar landscape suddenly alien and hostile. He felt a physical pressure in his chest, making it difficult to take deep breaths.

He felt like he was falling, spiraling down into a pit of uncertainty and fear. He wished he could rewind time, undo this disaster.

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