The small, dusty window in the attic cast a dim light on the scene. It seemed to amplify the mess, the layers of other people's discarded lives. She knew this was going to be a problem.

A tattered wedding dress lay draped across a trunk. She felt a strange churning in her stomach, a feeling of deep discontent. A wave of regret washed over her.

β€œJust… why?” she sighed, the word a small, defeated sound. This was supposed to be easy.

She quickly turned away, the dress's presence a reminder of all the things that had gone wrong.

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