The artist felt a coldness creep into her bones. She had poured her soul into these pieces, each brushstroke a confession, each color a reflection of her inner world. Now, they were on display, offered to the public without her consent. The betrayal cut deep.

She stood amidst the crowd, feeling like an imposter in her own story. Faces, full of curiosity, stared at her art. Their gazes felt invasive, as if they were peering into her mind. She wanted to vanish.

She clenched her fists, her nails digging into her palms. She bit her lip, forcing back the rising tide of emotions. The polite chatter around her grated on her nerves. She needed to leave, to escape this nightmare.

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