upset - Story 160085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“A fence?” Emily echoed, her voice flat. She was standing in her doorway when her neighbor came to her door to tell her about the new fence.

Her eyes darted around, taking in the perfect symmetry of her front garden. The boxwoods, the tulips, the freshly mown lawn. All of it, she felt, now threatened. The carefully curated space, jeopardized.

She crossed her arms tightly across her chest, a physical barrier mirroring the one soon to be constructed. A deep, hollow feeling was blossoming inside.

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