"That’s a lovely painting," she heard him say, as she looked at a piece of art at the gallery. Then, she noticed his eyes, focused on her. "It reminds me of…someone." His words were casual, but a cold wave of shock passed through her.

Later, she found the manuscript on his phone. The character, based on her, was an artist. The character’s paintings were described, even the one in the gallery. Every detail was accurate.

She gripped her phone tightly, feeling the warmth drain from her fingertips. She looked around the apartment, feeling like the walls were closing in, as though she was trapped in a meticulously crafted prison.

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