The florist’s apologetic face swam before her eyes. “So sorry, but…the booking…” The words trailed off, leaving a chasm of unspoken disappointment. She'd envisioned the table, laden with flowers, the air fragrant with the scent of lilies and roses. Now, the image shattered, replaced by an uncomfortable heat creeping up her neck. She busied herself with rearranging the furniture in her living room, a futile attempt to fill the void that had suddenly opened within her, each action a frantic attempt to do… something, anything.

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