“Come in,” Coach Evans finally croaked, his voice raw. He rubbed his eyes, the fatigue settling deep within him. He sat in his chair, feeling like he could hardly move. He watched the door open, the player tentatively entering. The boy's excitement from before was now gone.

He had spent the entire morning replaying the scenario in his head. His stomach churned with every memory. He wanted to shout, to run, to rewind time, to find a different solution. He felt a cold sweat prickle his skin, and the room seemed to spin slightly.

He was not looking forward to this.

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