He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it even messier than usual. The complaint, typed in a sterile font on a brightly lit screen, felt like a slap in the face. All that work, all that effort, and for what? To be labelled a nuisance. He let out a frustrated sigh, which seemed to shake his entire frame. The email stared back at him, the curt words "Please keep it down" burning a hole in his focus. He swiveled his chair away from the computer, staring out the window, his jaw clenched, as if fighting an invisible force.

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