He tried to ignore it, to brush it off as a coincidence. He had seen the name, "Brenda Myers, LPC," on a sign outside a nondescript office building downtown. He had walked past it every day, telling himself it was just a random name. But the gnawing feeling in his gut wouldn't go away.

He finally looked her up online, and his stomach lurched. The photo confirmed it. Brenda Myers, the girl who had made his life a misery for years, now held a degree in counseling. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to throw up.

He started crossing the street whenever he saw the building. The very sight of the place made him break out in a cold sweat. He didn't want to see her.

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