upset - Story 160125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman, Sarah, gripped her carry-on so tightly her knuckles were white. Her breath hitched. The delay meant she would likely miss the crucial meeting that could save her company from going under. She could feel the pressure building, a headache throbbing behind her temples. The endless loop of announcements and excuses felt like a cruel joke. She couldn’t sit still. She paced back and forth, muttering to herself, her usual confident demeanor completely shattered.

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