The news report showed the discovery: a time capsule found during a construction project. He watched the broadcast, his heart racing. He recognized the name, the date. His. He felt a creeping sense of wrongness.

He went to the dig site. The capsule was a mess, but he recognized the contents: a worn teddy bear, some letters, and a music box. The objects triggered no memories, only a deep sense of disorientation.

He stared at the teddy bear, at the handwriting on the letters, and felt a profound sense of alienation. He wanted to run, to escape this puzzle that couldn't be solved. He felt like the world was spinning.

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