The office air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that did nothing to alleviate the internal pressure building inside David. He chewed nervously on his lip, his gaze fixed on his phone. He had just received a passive-aggressive email from his boss. Before he could think, he'd drafted a text: “I can't believe I am stuck in this job.” He'd meant to send it to his wife, venting his frustration. He sent the message to his boss. His eyes widened. He immediately deleted the message. He ran his hand through his hair, his heart racing. He hoped his boss would think it was a glitch.

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