The air in the house felt thick, like syrup, making it hard for him to breathe. David stared at the peeling wallpaper in the hallway, his heart thudding a frantic rhythm against his ribs.

He slammed the front door shut, a resounding crash that seemed to vibrate through the entire house.

He wanted to smash something, break something, just to stop the feeling that was gnawing at him. He moved quickly to the kitchen and made a pot of strong coffee.

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