upset - Story 160164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ballroom seemed to shrink, the noise of the party suddenly deafening to Ethan. He leaned against a pillar, the cool marble a small comfort against the internal fire that had ignited the moment he laid eyes on Chloe. She was glowing, radiant in a shimmering green dress, a smile permanently plastered on her face as if nothing had ever happened.

He felt like a stranger, observing her from afar. He felt the familiar ache in his gut, the same sinking feeling he had felt after their break up.

He closed his eyes for a moment. He hadn't expected this. He hadn't wanted to see her. He opened his eyes, and she was still there.

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