The flickering neon sign of the all-night diner cast elongated shadows across Elias's face as he waited for his coffee. His hands wouldn't stop shaking. He replayed the text in his head, the one he’d meant for his therapist. Instead, it went to his mother: "I can't breathe." Now, the silence in the diner was a suffocating blanket. He jumped at the clatter of a dropped plate, the sudden noise making his heart leap into his throat. He'd never felt this exposed, this vulnerable.

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