"That can't be right," Sarah said, her voice cracking. The grade on her calculus quiz – a devastating "F" – seemed to swim before her eyes. She reread the professor's comments, each word a sharp jab. Her fingers tightened around the paper, crumpling it slightly. The lecture hall, usually buzzing with energy, felt suddenly distant and cold. The other students around her seemed to be speaking in a language she no longer understood. She wanted to disappear, to vanish into thin air.

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