He was driving, the highway stretching endlessly before him, each mile a reminder of the distance he was creating. He had a message in his draft: “I am sorry." He swerved slightly, correcting the car's path. He didn’t mean to be such a jerk. He meant to send it to his ex-girlfriend, but he had mistakenly sent it to his mother. He brought the car to the side of the road. He gripped the steering wheel so tight, his knuckles turned white. He needed to make it right.

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