The wind seemed to carry a mocking laughter as it whipped around her. Clara stood, arms wrapped tightly around herself as if trying to hold herself together. Her gaze was fixated on the empty space, her eyes wide, unblinking, reflecting the cold grey of the sky. The familiar shapes of her house, the trees in the yard – everything seemed alien, distorted. Her breath hitched. A tremor ran through her body, leaving her feeling brittle and exposed. The world felt dangerous.

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