The news landed like a slap. "I'm moving to Australia," the woman announced to her friend. The other woman, who was her best friend, could only nod at the news.

She picked at the corner of the table. A headache was building behind her eyes. Australia. The distance was insurmountable.

She found herself unable to speak. The world had shifted on its axis, and she was left floundering, grasping for a familiar hold. She felt lost.

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