He hadn't expected to feel this way. He'd moved on. He had a new life, a new family. But the listing, with its sterile, professional photos, hit him harder than he anticipated. His fingers tightened into fists.

He looked at the price, the description, the promises of a “fresh start.” He felt a strange sort of… hollowness, a deep void. He stood up, pacing his apartment. He was usually calm, collected. But the listing was a reminder of things he had lost.

He stopped in front of the window, staring out at the city. He felt as though a piece of him was gone, and he didn't know how to get it back. He let out a long, slow breath.

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