upset - Story 160170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The music suddenly sounded irritatingly loud, the joyful melodies grating on Ethan's nerves. He stood frozen, champagne glass halfway to his lips, staring across the room. There she was. Claire. Laughing, beautiful, with a man he didn't know. The knot in his stomach tightened.

He slowly lowered the glass, the bubbly liquid losing all its appeal. He abruptly set the glass down on a passing waiter’s tray and turned on his heel. He needed to leave, to get away. He felt the urge to flee. He was going to leave.

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