upset - Story 160072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam kicked at a loose pebble, sending it skittering across the cracked pavement. The biting wind whipped at his jacket, mirroring the sharp sting in his gut. His girlfriend had left him. Again. This time, it felt different, final. He couldn't shake the heavy weight in his chest.

He needed distraction. He’d been chatting online with "NightOwl91" for months, sharing everything, from his favorite books to his deepest fears. They had a bond he felt he could trust. "Hey, up for a movie tonight?" NightOwl91 had asked earlier. Liam had agreed.

He texted her the address of the cinema. As he walked toward it, a wave of cold dread washed over him. The theater was just a block from his apartment. He knew the area intimately. This couldn't be happening. He began to question all the things they said about each other, the inside jokes and the late night talks. Did any of it even matter?

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