The diagnosis had been devastating. The world felt like it was crumbling. She sat in the silent, sterile room, trying to make sense of the news. Her gaze fell on the drawings Lily had left on the bedside table. There, amidst the vibrant colors and joyful scenes, was a familiar shape - a small, furry creature with enormous, friendly eyes. It was Nibbles, her imaginary friend from childhood.

She felt a rush of something akin to fury. She had never been more furious. The drawing felt like a cruel mockery of her current state. She wanted to break something, to scream, to lash out at the universe.

Emotion: upset

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.30 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.42

Role in Research

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

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

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

Promoted:
S0.395
😞0.303
无法0.246
ness0.238
unable0.238
Suppressed:
de-0.533
la-0.457
l-0.223
😎-0.215
🤩-0.210