upset - Story 160178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the cramped apartment felt thick and oppressive. "You… you taught *kindergarten*?" James choked out, the words catching in his throat. He’d admired and looked up to Kevin, his “university professor” mentor, for years. He had valued his vast intellect, his insightful perspectives. Now, it all felt like a sham. A deep hollowness was settling in his stomach, and a stinging sensation behind his eyes warned of impending tears. He rubbed his temples.

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