upset - Story 160078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of frustration washed over Chloe as she walked away from her car. The engine wouldn't start. The mechanic's words replayed in her head: expensive, complicated, and time-consuming. She crossed her arms, a shiver running through her.

She'd recently been talking to "TravelBug", a fellow traveler, about their shared love of cars and the open road. A new message chimed. "Meeting at the gas station. Anyone need a ride?"

The gas station was only a few blocks from her apartment. Her breath hitched. She felt a hot flush creep up her neck. Her shoulders slumped. The situation felt so… unfair.

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