He was fuming. Mr. Bell had been publicly criticized by a parent during the assembly. He felt the injustice like a burning ember, radiating through his entire body. He stood at the window, staring out at the rain, the anger rising with each angry thought.

A colorful painting, depicting a vibrant field of flowers, was delivered to his office. It was from a quiet, shy student named Kevin, who had found his voice through art. The card simply said, "You taught me to bloom." He finally found a place to sit, and in that moment, the anger dissipated.

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