The letter, found inside a volume of Shakespeare’s sonnets, spoke of a past life, a secret identity. It was a revelation for David, who had always felt like an outsider, like he didn't belong. He sat in the chair, a coldness spreading through him.

He felt a sudden disconnect from his surroundings, as if the room had suddenly shifted. His own reflection in the window seemed strange, unfamiliar. He slowly got up.

His legs felt unsteady as he started pacing. He had no words. He needed some air. He grabbed his coat, heading out the door.

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