The bustling marketplace was a symphony of noise and smells, but it all faded away when the busker began to play. He knew the melody. He knew the lyrics. He froze, his shopping bag slipping from his grasp, spilling oranges onto the cobblestones.

He closed his eyes. The guitar chords resonated, each note a slap in the face. It wasn't just the fact that it was his song; it was the way the stranger played it, with a joy that felt… wrong. His own memories were now tainted by something synthetic. He felt a chilling sensation crawling up his spine.

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