Mary stared at the ceiling, her eyes wide, unable to blink. Sleep was impossible. The images, the words, the hidden life of her son, Alex, kept replaying in her mind. It was a strange, unsettling film.

She had always believed in transparency. But this… this felt like a carefully constructed deception. A cold feeling settled in the pit of her stomach. The silence of the house amplified her inner turmoil.

She wanted to call her husband, to share the burden. But she couldn't. Not yet.

Emotion: troubled

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.20 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.81

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion troubled. 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 troubled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the troubled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the troubled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
😞0.343
S0.317
ness0.302
πŸ˜”0.294
😒0.272
Suppressed:
de-0.553
la-0.511
l-0.307
/-0.260
(!)-0.236