My hands trembled as I took another sip of my coffee. The small, windowless space I’d found behind the mirror in the master bathroom was utterly devoid of anything. Just bare, painted walls. But the complete lack of contents sent my anxiety spiking. I found myself checking the locks on the doors, again and again. I had to know. The house felt like an unknowable puzzle, and I was terrified of what the missing piece might be.

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
šŸ˜ž0.297
worse0.284
Suppressed:
de-0.829
la-0.666
a-0.392
B-0.301
"-0.290