The envelope lay on the kitchen counter, a pale, unwelcome guest. Amelia picked it up, her fingers tracing the script of her old last name. She set it back down, as if burned. The aroma of simmering chili, usually a comfort, now felt cloying, suffocating. She opened the window, inhaling deeply, but the air offered no relief. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the silence of the house. She couldn't face them. Not now. Not ever.

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