He found his journal lying on his roommate's bed, next to a half-eaten bag of chips. The cover was turned open to a page detailing his deepest insecurities. A wave of heat rushed through him, followed by a bone-chilling cold.

His roommate, Kevin, looked up, seemingly unfazed. A casual glance, nothing more. A small, almost imperceptible smirk. He wanted to break something, to yell, to just get *away*.

He sat down heavily on his own bed, his head in his hands. He felt like his own private world had been shattered into a million pieces. He had to think of a way out.

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