The doctor’s words echoed in Ms. Chen’s ears. The diagnosis, the prognosis… the world felt blurred, distant. She sat at her desk, the usual bustle of students replaced with a heavy quietness, each heartbeat a painful drum.

A small, ornate music box arrived. It played a familiar melody, and it was from Chloe, a student who always struggled with life. The note read, “Find your song.” She wound the key, listening to the tune, and she started, slowly, to breathe again.

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