The coffee tasted like ash in his mouth. Ethan had been nursing the same lukewarm cup for an hour, the bitter liquid doing nothing to soothe the tension knotting in his chest. He’d seen the notice plastered on the library door. *Immediate closure.* He picked at a stray thread on his worn jeans, his fingers tracing the frayed fabric in a desperate attempt to find some grounding. He couldn't think straight. His thesis, his future – all seemed to be dissolving before his eyes.

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