"What? No." Her voice cracked, a brittle sound in the suddenly hushed afternoon. Maria stood rooted to the spot, the grocery bag slipping from her numb fingers. The milk carton split open, a white river spreading across the asphalt, but she didn’t notice. The world felt wrong, unbalanced. A pressure built behind her eyes, the edges of her vision beginning to tunnel. She felt a desperate urge to run, to flee this scene of violation, of some deep, unspoken injustice.

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