upset - Story 160023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mommy, can we go to the park?" Maya's voice, usually a source of joy, now grated on Sarah's ears. The divorce proceedings were dragging on, leaving her perpetually on edge. She needed some peace. The vibrant, chaotic drawings littering the kitchen table were not helping. Lily, Maya's daughter, had a new favorite: a furry, blue thing with a single, enormous eye.

Sarah's stomach churned. The blue monster was Scruff, Sarah’s own childhood friend. Seeing him, staring back at her, felt like a cruel joke, a taunt from her past. The kitchen seemed to shrink, the bright colors of the artwork closing in on her.

"Not today, sweetheart," she said, her voice tight. "Maybe later." She was going to need a stiff drink tonight.

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:

`S`	0.395
`😞`	0.303
`无法`	0.246
`ness`	0.238
`unable`	0.238

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.533
`la`	-0.457
`l`	-0.223
`😎`	-0.215
`🤩`	-0.210