The car ride was a blur. He drove past the building twice before he finally parked. He clutched his chest, trying to slow his racing heart. He knew he should have just stayed home. He should have avoided this. He hadn't been thinking clearly.

He walked to the entrance. The building was old, brick, and it seemed to absorb all the light around it. He took a deep breath, steeling himself. He stepped inside. The waiting room was empty. He sat, tapping his foot, and waited.

When she came out to get him, he froze. Her face was as cold as ever.

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