The old photographs scattered across the dining table seemed to leer at him. Ethan picked one up, a faded image of his grandmother, her smile unsettlingly wide. He dropped it quickly, as if burned.

He felt a tightness in his chest, a sense of confinement despite the spacious rooms. The house seemed to hum with a discordant energy, vibrating through him.

He walked over to the windows, pulled back the curtains, and looked outside. The world was normal, and he was not.

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