upset - Story 160029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The holiday season was proving to be a minefield of forced smiles and strained conversations. The family gatherings were a yearly torment. This year, the strain of it felt worse. She stared at the pile of drawings Lily had made, strewn across the table. There it was again: a tall, thin figure with a large, round head. It was Mr. Floppy, the imaginary friend from her youth.

The sight of him made her want to retreat. She felt a profound sense of sadness, a longing for a time when things were simpler, less complicated. The joy of the season felt distant and unreachable.

She slowly picked up the drawing, her fingers tracing the outline of Mr. Floppy's head.

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