She slammed her phone shut, the sound echoing in her otherwise quiet apartment. It was the picture, that's what did it. A casual selfie, meant for her best friend, landed directly in her ex-husband's inbox. A casual selfie, showing the remnants of a lipstick she hadn’t thought about in years, a smile she hadn't realized she still possessed. Her breath hitched. She paced, the hardwood floor creaking under her hurried steps. The air felt thick, heavy, as if the walls were closing in.

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