He awoke with a jolt, heart racing. The sound had invaded his dreams, a distorted, amplified version of the construction noise. He sat up in bed, his muscles tense.

He went to the window, peering at the neighbor's property. The sight of the half-demolished structure filled him with a potent blend of resentment and helplessness. He felt his jaw clench, a knot forming in his stomach.

He turned away from the window and dressed, grabbing his keys with a purpose. He needed to get away, to escape the ceaseless assault on his peace. He left the house, the door slamming shut behind him.

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