She found the list in the pocket of his favorite jacket. The words danced before her eyes: "Skydive." "Learn to fly a plane." "Live a life filled with adventure."

Her vision blurred. The air suddenly felt too thin. She reached out and grasped the kitchen counter for support, her knuckles turning white.

The world seemed to spin. Everything, the mundane details of their life together, now felt like a lie. She closed her eyes, trying to make the feeling go away.

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