The world seemed to tilt on its axis. Sarah stared at the notice, her vision swimming. The words swam before her eyes, blurring into an incomprehensible mess. Her stomach twisted into a painful knot. She felt a cold sweat prickle her skin, despite the stuffy apartment. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe. She clutched the notice to her chest, a desperate attempt to anchor herself to something, anything, in this suddenly unstable reality.

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