upset - Story 160090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun seemed to mock her as she surveyed her yard. The notice about the fence crackled in her hand. Her head felt muddled, her thoughts a tangled mess.

She walked towards the very edge of her property, tracing the border with her toe. The prospect of the boundary altering her perception of space left her feeling constricted, as though she was being crowded out.

She kicked at a stone, sending it skittering across the lawn. Her jaw was set, and her eyes were narrowed.

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