He was talking on the phone again. His face was hidden behind a newspaper. Her heart pounded in her chest. She knew, she just knew. She wanted to scream, to rip the paper from his hands, to demand answers. But she couldn't.

She sat opposite him at the kitchen table, the silence thick and heavy. She picked at her breakfast, the food turning to ash in her mouth. Every bite felt like a chore. The air in the room felt thick and hard to breathe.

She saw him glance at her, then quickly look away. His eyes were evasive. Her stomach lurched. The world seemed to shrink, closing in around her, suffocating her.

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