“This is impossible,” Leo muttered, pacing the cramped waiting room. The sterile white walls seemed to close in on him. His hands were clammy. He’d been sitting here for hours.

Another man, older, with weary eyes, sat slumped in a chair, staring at the floor. He'd come to visit his fiancé. Except, based on the information his fiancé had shared about her life, a life the other man had just heard described to him in full, it was impossible the woman had multiple fiancés.

Leo ran a hand through his hair. His head throbbed. He wondered if he was going to throw up.

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