It was a leaden sensation, a feeling of being weighed down. I entered the room and saw the journal on the bed, open to a page I knew I had filled with personal details. My roommate, Emily, looked up, feigning a surprised expression.

My hands clenched at my sides. A deep, throbbing ache started in my temples. The room seemed to spin slightly. I wanted to scream, but no sound escaped my lips. I just stood there, paralyzed, the image of my private thoughts laid bare, burning in my mind.

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