He’d found the letter in a dog-eared copy of *Hamlet*, a gift from his ex. The words spoke of a hidden affair, a betrayal that cut deeper than any physical wound. He clenched his jaw, his eyes burning.

He stared at the page, the ink blurring through his tears. He felt a rage boiling beneath the surface, a destructive force he struggled to contain. He felt as though he couldn't breathe.

He crumpled the letter, the paper tearing in his hand. He wanted to destroy everything, to obliterate the memories that now felt tainted and corrupted. He wanted vengeance.

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