upset - Story 160092 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah slammed the car door with more force than necessary, the sound echoing in the quiet cul-de-sac. Her father, his face etched with concern, rushed out of the house. "Everything okay, sweetheart?" he asked, his voice gentle. She just shrugged, unable to meet his gaze.

She followed him inside, the familiar scent of pot roast and furniture polish a physical assault on her senses. She hated this. She hated the way the house felt too small, the way her mother hovered, offering unsolicited advice about everything.

That evening, during dinner, the conversation felt like an interrogation. “So, when are you going to start looking for a real job?” Her brother's question hung in the air, heavy with judgment. Sarah pushed her food around her plate, the lump in her throat making it impossible to swallow. She rose abruptly from the table, claiming a headache.

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