The doctor’s words echoed in Elara's mind, a constant, unwanted refrain: *... significant DNA match... a half-brother... unexpected.* She sat on the examination table, her legs dangling, her hands clasped tightly in her lap. The sterile white of the room felt oppressive.

She found herself replaying old memories, scrutinizing them for hidden clues, for signs of this secret, this deception. She felt as though she was a detective, searching for a truth that had been deliberately concealed. Everything felt tainted, as if her entire life had been built on a lie. She was filled with a deep, unsettling unease.

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