James felt like he was drowning. He had, against all his better judgement, looked at his daughter's hidden Tumblr. The content was so vastly different from what he'd thought he knew. Now, he wondered if he ever really knew her at all.

He retreated to the garden, the fresh air a weak balm against the internal storm. The vibrant green of the lawn seemed overly bright, the birdsong shrill. His shoulders slumped, his muscles tense with a feeling like icy chains.

He wanted to run, to escape the crushing weight of this revelation. The world seemed suddenly sharp, defined, and completely foreign. He took a deep, shuddering breath, the air doing nothing to calm the panic rising within.

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