I walked into the university coffee shop, eager for my usual afternoon coffee and a chat with Professor Adams. He wasn’t there. When I asked the barista, she said he was gone. I felt a cold dread settle in my bones. I didn't know how to move forward.

The steam from my coffee no longer smelled appealing. I picked up my phone and started scrolling, but I didn’t know what I was looking for. I paid for my coffee and left, my hands clammy. I felt alone, utterly and completely alone.

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