The aroma of freshly brewed coffee in the café did nothing to calm the chaos in his chest. Across the room, his illustrations, his characters, were displayed on the walls. He’d recognized them immediately. They were the product of countless sleepless nights. Under a false name, of course. His body felt cold, even though the cafe was warm. He felt the blood draining from his face, and he gripped the edge of the table. He was going to burst, but he didn't know how to stop the flood.

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