He stared at the mirror, the stranger staring back felt unfamiliar. He felt a disconnect, a blurring of reality. His name, Mark, sounded foreign on his own lips. His stomach churned. He had been planning this meeting for weeks, this moment to reconnect with Emily. The shock of her response, her blank expression when he spoke of their youth, had left him reeling. The world seemed to wobble. He splashed cold water on his face, as if to wash away the feeling. He saw no reflection of himself.

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