He didn't know *why*. That was the worst part. Michael stared at the empty driveway, a profound sense of disorientation washing over him. The world around him seemed to lose its color, its sharpness. His limbs felt heavy, unresponsive. He tried to think, to reason, but his mind felt trapped in a swirling vortex of confusion. He grabbed his phone and dialed his wife's number, his hand shaking so violently he almost dropped the device.

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