The familiar routine of the gym felt alien, the clanging of weights grating on Leo's nerves. He found himself avoiding eye contact, a new habit. Every muscle felt tight, every breath shallow.

He saw her, walking across the weight room. She paused, and then she looked right at him. They both knew, and the knowledge hung in the air, heavy and suffocating.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to ask. He wanted to flee. He just stood there, unable to move, unable to breathe, while she walked towards him.

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