It was the embossed crest that did it. The school emblem, the reminder of a life that felt a million miles away, a life she hated and loved simultaneously. Jessica ran her finger across the smooth paper, a shiver chasing up her spine. The air in her small apartment seemed to thicken, pressing down on her. She felt a growing sense of claustrophobia. She needed air, to escape the suffocating weight of expectation. She grabbed her coat and slammed the door behind her, leaving the invitation to lie undisturbed on the table.

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