He found himself walking in circles, the confines of his small apartment suddenly feeling too tight. The lease renewal notice, shoved under his door earlier, was the source of the trouble. His heart felt heavy. He looked at the walls, the furniture, the pictures. It was all so... permanent.

He grabbed his keys and jacket, needing to get out. The air outside was thick with the scent of exhaust fumes, but at least it was a change. He walked, head down, barely noticing the bustling city around him.

He felt a vague sense of anger, directed at everything and nothing. He felt the urge to lash out, to break something. He shoved his hands in his pockets, struggling to contain the surge of emotion.

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