The groundskeeper, a stooped man with kind eyes, offered an awkward explanation about storm damage and necessary pruning. But his words were meaningless. She stared at the flat, empty space where the oak had stood, her gaze lingering on the fresh wood chips, the pungent smell of sap. The world seemed suddenly tilted, all the familiar landmarks of her childhood askew. She bit the inside of her cheek, a sharp, stinging pain a small comfort in the vast emptiness she now felt.

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