The world swam. Sarah gripped the counter, her knuckles white. The accusations from her boss still echoed in her ears. Unfair, she thought, the word a bitter pill she couldn't swallow. She had poured her heart and soul into that project. She moved through the kitchen, a zombie, and leaned against the wall. A section of the wood paneling felt…different. With a sudden burst of energy, she tugged at it, a hidden door swinging open, revealing a small, forgotten room.

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