The world felt suddenly unsteady for Eleanor. She’d been snooping - a deeply regrettable action - and found her daughter, Chloe's, secret TikTok account. The videos were... provocative, even disturbing. The girl she knew had been replaced by someone else.

She sunk into the plush armchair, the cushions doing nothing to cushion the blow. The room felt too warm, the air thick and heavy. Her hands fluttered uselessly, finding no comfort in their own touch.

Her breath came in shallow gasps. She found herself clutching at the fabric of her skirt, as if trying to hold herself together. It was a horrifying sight; an alternate reality she couldn't understand and didn't want to accept.

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