From the car window, Sarah watched the wrecking ball swing, each arc a deliberate act of violence. Her jaw was clenched. Her hands were balled into fists in her lap, nails digging into her palms. The home, her refuge, her sanctuary, was being annihilated. She remembered the secret language she and her sister used to create within its walls, the whispered secrets, and the comforting feeling of safety. Tears welled, blurring the scene, making the destruction even more profound.

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