upset - Story 160154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened, and Michael stumbled out, feeling suddenly lightheaded. He gripped the handrail, his knuckles white. The brightly lit lobby seemed to spin around him. He leaned against the wall, trying to regain his composure.

He saw the congratulations card that Alex had sent. He had written a thoughtful message, but that didn't matter. The job, the promotion, were his now. Alex had secured it. Michael had not. His carefully constructed plans lay in ruins.

He fumbled for his keys, his fingers clumsy and unresponsive. The elevator doors closed with a soft whisper, leaving him alone in the bustling lobby. He was not sure he could face going home.

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