The park felt different now, all the familiar beauty twisted. The sunlight, the birdsong, everything. Even the bench where they'd shared their first kiss felt tainted.

She saw him. Across the neatly trimmed lawn, he was holding hands with another woman. The woman was wearing the scarf he had given her. The woman laughed, and his expression softened.

Her lungs constricted. The air felt thin. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes. He said he loved her.

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