"No, no, no," whispered Michael, backing away from the dusty mirror propped against the far wall. The reflection wasn't his. Or at least, not entirely. He kept seeing a flicker of someone else in its depths, a fleeting face that twisted into a mocking smile.

He blinked, rubbed his eyes, but it was still there. He stumbled backward, tripping over a discarded rocking horse. Its empty eyes seemed to follow him. He felt his breath coming in ragged gasps. He wanted to scream. He wanted to run.

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