Chef Elena slowly removed her apron, the familiar fabric suddenly feeling heavy and restrictive. The review, pinned to the staff noticeboard, stared back at her with its cold, impersonal judgement. Every detail she had agonized over, every flavour combination she had carefully crafted, had been dismissed. The vibrant energy of the open kitchen felt distant, the sounds muffled. She walked, without a word, to the staff bathroom and locked the door behind her.

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