The harsh light of the garage seemed to amplify the tension within Clara. She was staring at the time capsule she’d stumbled upon while organizing. She felt the need to destroy it, to make it all go away. Her hands began to clench.

She didn't remember the details. She simply knew, instinctively, that the contents held something she didn't want to confront. A sense of impending doom settled over her.

She picked up a hammer, her movements jerky and erratic. The metal glinted menacingly in the light. She started to cry.

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