upset - Story 160169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat washed over Michael. He felt the familiar, unwelcome tightness in his chest. Seeing Jessica, beaming and happy with someone else, was a gut punch. He had thought he’d moved on, but the reality was a painful reminder.

He abruptly excused himself from the conversation he was in, his voice sounding hollow even to his own ears. He needed to escape. He made his way towards the dance floor, hoping to lose himself in the chaos of the music, the people.

He felt the prickle of tears behind his eyes and quickly blinked them away. The joyous atmosphere felt wrong.

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