upset - Story 160167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant decorations, the laughter, the music—everything seemed amplified, a symphony of misery for David. He clenched his jaw, forcing a smile onto his face as he made small talk with a distant relative. Seeing Emily, elegant and serene, with a date he didn't recognize, was a physical blow.

His throat constricted, making it difficult to swallow. He excused himself, citing a sudden need for a refill. His hand trembled as he poured himself another glass of wine, the liquid sloshing over the rim.

He couldn't meet her gaze, fearing the floodgates would open. He wanted to disappear. He needed to disappear.

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