upset - Story 160153 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I can't believe it," Clara muttered, the words barely audible. She traced a finger over the smooth surface of the wooden table, unable to meet her mother's gaze. The rejection letter sat accusingly in front of her. Across the table, her childhood friend, Ben, sat beaming with news of his acceptance.

Her throat felt constricted, making it difficult to swallow. The air seemed thick, the usually bright kitchen now dim and oppressive. She forced a smile, a grotesque imitation of joy that did nothing to alleviate the internal turmoil.

She excused herself abruptly, claiming a sudden headache, and retreated to her room. Closing the door behind her with a soft click, she leaned against the cool wood, the disappointment a heavy weight against her chest.

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