He picked up the old music box, turning the rusty key. A tinkling melody filled the attic, but the notes seemed to shift and change, subtly distorting into something…off. He felt a wave of dizziness, a disorienting sensation of the room spinning.

The painted ballerina twirled within, her painted smile growing wider, more unnerving with each rotation. He gripped the edge of the table, struggling to maintain his balance. He had to make it stop. He wanted it to stop.

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