β€œAre you kidding me?” Mark barked, pacing his cramped apartment. He’d just received a call informing him he hadn't landed the promotion he'd been working towards for years. Frustration boiled inside him. He started to draft a text: "I am never going to make it." He had meant to send this to his therapist. He accidentally sent this message to his boss. His face fell. He slumped onto the sofa, the phone falling from his limp hand. He closed his eyes.

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