A shiver crawled up her spine. "Adopt a dog." Ben had always hated dogs. Her jaw tightened as she re-read the list, his handwriting a stark contrast to his personality. She felt an urgent need to flee, to escape the confines of their apartment.

She looked around the familiar space, which suddenly seemed alien and hostile. The sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes that danced in the air, mocking her. She felt a suffocating pressure in her chest.

She went to the bathroom and splashed cold water on her face, but the feeling wouldn't recede. She looked at her reflection, seeing a stranger staring back.

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