The smell of freshly brewed coffee, usually a comfort, now felt like a taunt. Amelia stared at the latte art her daughter, Clara, had just created. Intricate swirls and perfect hearts. Amelia’s own attempts were... basic. Coffee art was her thing for many years.

"Mom, what do you think? I’m thinking of entering the regional competition!" Clara said.

Amelia’s chest felt constricted. “That’s…great.” Her voice sounded hollow, even to her own ears.

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