The scent of sandalwood and old paper filled the study. It was his world, usually a place of comfort and joy. Now, it was a place of secrets.

Liam had stumbled upon a draft of the novel. It was about their relationship. The protagonist in the novel felt the same as him, loved the same hobbies. But the protagonist had a twisted perspective.

Liam paced the room, a restless energy coursing through him. He felt as though he was in a maze, constantly turning around, never reaching the exit.

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