The air in the lecture hall felt thin, as though the oxygen had been sucked away. Professor Miller, usually so jovial, seemed subdued, his voice flat as he delivered the news. The silence that followed was deafening. Sarah felt a creeping numbness spread through her limbs, as if her body were slowly shutting down. Her vision tunneled. She clasped her hands tightly in her lap, her knuckles turning white. She fought back the sudden urge to sob. She needed to get out of here.

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