The small coffee shop felt suddenly claustrophobic. Emily’s smile was forced as she listened to Tom describe his weekend plans. Plans that included the same quirky art gallery she'd been to with him just last week. She looked around, feeling trapped.

She took a sip of her coffee, then put it down.

Her hands started to shake, and she clasped them together.

She stood up abruptly.

“I… I have to go," she stammered, without making eye contact.

She rushed out of the coffee shop, and headed towards her car.

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