Rain lashed against the windows as Sarah stared at the matching necklaces. They were identical, the same delicate silver pendants. They both had them, both supposedly a testament to their love. She wanted to scream. She wanted to shatter something.

She walked to the kitchen and began putting away clean dishes, slamming them into the cupboard.

She took a deep breath. She went to the fridge and opened it, then shut it, without selecting anything.

She stared out at the rain, the grey sky mirroring her mood.

A text message pinged on her phone: "Can't wait to see you tonight." It was from him.

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