The house seemed to shrink around me. I kept seeing the detective's face, the way his lips had thinned as he recounted the details of the crime. My heart hammered against my ribs, a frantic bird trapped in a cage.

I wandered from room to room, touching the walls, feeling the texture of the paint. The house, which had once felt like a sanctuary, now felt like a mausoleum.

I poured myself a glass of wine, but it tasted like ashes. I couldn’t swallow a single drop.

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