upset - Story 160073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug trembled in Maya’s hands as she stared at the email. Another performance review, another scathing critique. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic bird trapped in a cage. Her dream of becoming a professional dancer felt so far away.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the churning in her stomach. She’d found solace in "ZenMaster22," an online friend who always offered encouragement. He had helped her through all the doubts. He sent her a message: "Just saw a fantastic show at the Grand Theatre. You should check it out."

The Grand Theatre was literally across the street from her apartment. The thought of it made her feel like the world was closing in on her. She felt a deep, twisting anxiety. The facade of the real world felt like it was starting to crumble.

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