He grabbed the card from the mailbox, his fingers brushing against the slick paper. He felt a coldness creep into his bones, a chilling sense of dread. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture frantic. He crumpled the card, then hesitated, his gaze fixed on the small, anonymous gesture. He finally tossed it into the recycling bin, the action feeling hollow and pointless. He turned away, and the weight of the day began to settle upon him.

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