He was stuck in his old room, sitting on the floor staring at his old baseball glove. His grandfather, a man of few words but a big heart, taught him how to play baseball. He'd decided to sell his grandfather's things.

He picked up the glove and ran his hand through it. It was worn, but it fit his hand perfectly, just like it did his grandfather's. He closed his eyes, remembering the smell of leather and freshly cut grass.

He felt something tighten in his chest, making it difficult to breathe. He wanted to shout, but he couldn't make a sound. The glove meant more than he could say, it meant his grandfather.

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