The morning’s sunlight seemed to mock him. Robert’s shoulders slumped as he stared at the vacant spot in his driveway. His head swam. This wasn't just inconvenient; it felt like a betrayal.

He gripped his phone so hard, he thought he might shatter it. The audacity of it all was staggering. His blood ran cold.

The paperwork, the fees, the hassle of retrieving the car… it was all suffocating. He wanted to shout. He wanted to smash something. He felt a deep, gnawing emptiness in his core.

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