He had always thought he knew himself. Now, everything felt hazy. The discovery of a half-sister, a woman he'd never met, shattered his illusion of control. He kept walking in circles, a restless energy coursing through him. He couldn’t sit still. He couldn't eat.

The simple act of breathing felt difficult. The news had turned his world inside out. He had a sudden urge to break something, to scream, to lash out. His hands clenched into fists, the nails digging into his palms. He ran his hands through his hair, over and over again, as if trying to untangle something within himself.

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