The photograph, clutched tightly in her hand, felt heavy, the image mocking her. There it was, in faded Kodachrome, the young girl, grinning up at the sturdy branches. She could almost feel the rough bark beneath her fingertips, the rustle of leaves in the breeze. Now, nothing. She felt a profound emptiness, a void that yawned within her, mirroring the space the tree had occupied. She let out a shaky breath, the air around her growing thin, and her world seemed to dim.

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