He stared at the exposed earth, a dull ache spreading through his body. His hands tightened into fists, his knuckles turning white. The elm, planted with such hope and now… gone. His jaw clenched. He was supposed to bring his grandchildren there one day.

He turned away abruptly, unable to look at it any longer. His chest felt heavy, as though a great weight had been placed upon it. He took a long, ragged breath, trying to steady himself, attempting to regain control.

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