The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed muted, the paintings blurred. Olivia walked through the exhibition, but the beauty of the work failed to reach her. It was all so artificial, a pretense. The job was all that mattered.

She kept checking her phone, her fingers hovering over the screen. No call. She should be happy, she told herself. But the contentment felt forced. She felt so incredibly hollow.

The others had all left the gallery, but she kept walking, her steps echoing in the empty space. Her gaze drifted across each piece, their meanings slipping from her grasp. She knew then she could not sleep.

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