He stared at the blank canvas, the brushes lying scattered on the table. Paint had always been his escape, his way of expressing himself. His son, Finn, was now a celebrated artist. Finn's paintings were in galleries.

Finn, brimming with excitement, walked into the studio. "Dad, I’m getting a solo show!"

A wave of heat washed over him. He felt his hands begin to tremble, and sat down hard, defeated, on a stool.

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
šŸ˜ž0.303
无法0.246
ness0.238
unable0.238
Suppressed:
de-0.533
la-0.457
l-0.223
šŸ˜Ž-0.215
🤩-0.210