He walked aimlessly through the park, kicking at loose pebbles. The sunlight felt oppressive, the sounds of children’s laughter mocking. He felt a deep sense of betrayal, of having his life tampered with. The misdiagnosis, the wrong medications. The thought of all the time wasted, the possible damage done, left him feeling numb.

He sat on a park bench, his shoulders slumped. He felt an intense weariness, a profound sense of being adrift. He stared at the ground, the intricate patterns of the paving stones failing to hold his attention. He was utterly lost.

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