"So, the whole thing… was a fabrication?" Leo asked, his voice barely a whisper. He stared at Ethan, his best friend since kindergarten, across the table at the pub. Ethan, the celebrated novelist, the man whose books Leo had devoured with adoration. Now, he knew the “novels” were ghostwritten, the fame a cleverly constructed facade. The bitterness was a physical thing, a sour taste coating his tongue. He pushed away his half-eaten burger.

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