Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the tempest within Clara. She found it tucked away in a box of old photographs. A letter she'd written to her sister, years ago. Never posted.

She had to sit. The words were a revelation, a raw outpouring of jealousy and insecurity, veiled under a veneer of forced cheerfulness. The ink seemed to bleed into the paper, reflecting the dark stain within her.

Her vision blurred. A wave of nausea swept over her. She crumpled the letter, the paper tearing raggedly in her grip, a sound that echoed the snapping of something inside.

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