The air in the apartment felt thick, suffocating. James sat on the couch, the laptop open on his lap. He’d discovered the truth earlier that day. Now the very walls seemed to be closing in around him.

He picked up a book and threw it across the room.

He grabbed a pillow, and began to punch it repeatedly.

He opened the laptop. He couldn't keep looking at the profiles.

He slammed the laptop shut.

He wanted to smash the world to pieces.

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