The shadows in the hallway seemed to lengthen, closing in. He felt the prickle of sweat on his forehead as he peered through the peephole. There it was again, the golden blur tearing across his lawn, scattering the meticulously placed pebbles around his Japanese maple. He swallowed hard, his throat tight. He backed away from the door, his breath coming in shallow, ragged gasps. He went to the kitchen and made a cup of tea, but the scalding liquid offered no comfort.

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