The low growl rumbled in her throat, a physical manifestation of the tension that coiled in her stomach. The dog, a golden retriever with boundless energy, was now inside, happily prancing over her freshly mowed lawn. She watched from the kitchen window, fingers clenching and unclenching at the edge of the countertop. She gripped the cold granite surface, the cold seeping into her skin, a futile attempt to ground herself. "Oh, for heaven's sake," she muttered under her breath.

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