The air in the room seemed thick, heavy, as she stared at the open journal. Her usually tidy roommate, Maria, was lounging on her bed, scrolling through social media. She looked up and met her gaze with an innocent smile.

A tremor ran through her. She wanted to run, to scream, to disappear. But her feet felt rooted to the floor. The world around her blurred. The colors seemed muted.

She forced herself to breathe, one shallow breath after another. "Did you... did you read my journal?" she managed to croak out, her voice barely audible. Maria didn't reply, her smile never faltering.

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