upset - Story 160097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cramped space of Leo's old bedroom felt like a prison cell. He paced back and forth, the uneven floorboards creaking under his weight. Each footfall echoed in the silence, amplifying the turmoil within him. The posters on the wall, remnants of a forgotten life, seemed to mock him.

His mother knocked on the door, her voice hesitant. "Leo, honey, can I come in?" He didn't answer. He couldn't. He didn't want the sympathy. He couldn't bear to see the pity in her eyes.

He heard the click of the lock as she entered anyway, her voice growing closer. “Leo, what’s wrong?” He pressed his back against the closed door, as a wave of overwhelming frustration washed over him.

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