The apartment, usually a haven, now felt like a prison. Sarah stared at the notice, her chest tight. It was a cold, impersonal decree, and it stole the air from her lungs. She looked around the room, at the furniture, the pictures on the wall, the objects that defined her life. A wave of despair washed over her, making her legs feel wobbly. She pressed her back against the door, as if trying to physically hold the walls together. Tears streamed down her face, silent and unstoppable.

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