upset - Story 160096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bitter taste coated Olivia’s mouth. The stale coffee, the too-sweet cereal, the morning news droning in the background – it all felt like a personal affront. She chewed her lip, the taste of cheap sugar lingering.

Her father’s voice, cheerful and overly enthusiastic, grated on her. "So, did you sleep well, sweetie?" The question felt like a dig, a reminder of her recent insomnia and the sleepless nights that had led to her current situation. She could feel her jaw clench.

She rose from the table, unable to face another minute of forced pleasantries. She didn't bother to respond. She didn't want to talk, she just wanted to disappear. She grabbed her coat and walked out the door, the chill morning air a welcome respite.

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