upset - Story 160150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last email from his coding mentor, Mrs. Ito, was cryptic. A single sentence: "Onward and upward." Michael leaned back in his chair, feeling a cold wash over him. All that dedication, all that work to have his mentor just vanish. He felt the sting of tears behind his eyes.

He stared at his computer screen, the lines of code, the source of his current and future dreams, a mess of confusion. He wanted to call her, yell at her, question her. He wanted her support and guidance, but instead, there was nothing. He felt his hands tremble as he swiveled around, away from the computer.

He grabbed the nearest object, a stress ball, and squeezed it until it felt like it would break.

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