John found himself unexpectedly unable to speak. His throat felt constricted, making it impossible to form a sentence. He stood frozen, watching the house, his childhood fortress, shrink beneath the relentless assault of the machinery. His gaze darted back and forth, as if searching for something he had lost. The memories flooded him, an overwhelming tide of images, sounds, and smells. It was all about to be erased. He felt as if someone had punched him in the chest.

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