"This isn't right," Leo whispered, his voice cracking. Across the table, his sister, Iris, beamed, showing off the deeds to their grandfather's vineyard. Leo, meanwhile, possessed a dusty, antique globe.

The map, the continents, seemed to be shifting. When he spun it, the oceans whispered to him, but the voices were unfamiliar.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable nausea. His head throbbed, and the room seemed to spin.

He tried to stand, but his legs were uncooperative. He sank back into his chair, eyes glued to the globe as it continued to spin.

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