The attic was a disaster, a repository of forgotten things. Mark wandered through the gloom, the beam of his flashlight cutting through the dust motes. He felt a prickly sensation at the back of his neck, as if being watched.

He picked up a chipped porcelain doll, its painted eyes staring blankly. He quickly put it down, a sudden, almost violent, tremor running through him.

He was acutely aware of the silence, a profound and oppressive quiet that seemed to press in on him. He felt the need to get out of the house. Now.

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