The first thing he registered was the silence. No gentle purr of the engine as he’d expect when he got home, no reassuring presence in the drive. John’s heart hammered a frantic tattoo against his ribs as he scanned the scene. His breath came in shallow, ragged gasps. He found himself pacing back and forth, muttering under his breath, his hands repeatedly clenching and unclenching. He needed to *do* something, fix this. Anything to make the bad feeling in his gut go away.

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