The pastel hues of the card seemed to mock her. Emily stared at it, her jaw tight, her gaze fixed on the cheerful message. It felt like a deliberate poke, a reminder of the celebrations she felt incapable of planning. The knot in her stomach tightened with each passing second, a physical manifestation of her despair. She found herself reaching for the phone, then abruptly pulling her hand away. The silence of the house pressed down on her, heavy and suffocating.

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