The old phonograph sat silent, gathering dust. Liam hesitated, then lifted the needle. A scratchy, distorted melody filled the air, a melody that seemed to burrow into his brain. He felt a throbbing sensation behind his eyes.

The music intensified, the notes twisting and warping. His hands began to tremble. A sense of unease washed over him, a feeling of being watched, of being…invaded. He scrambled to turn off the music, his fingers fumbling with the controls. He then bolted, as though chased by demons.

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