upset - Story 160185 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the kitchen. Emily stared at the voicemail, her jaw clenched. The voice on the recording – a woman's voice – was soft, familiar, too familiar. Liam had said he was working late, again. Now, the lie felt like a poison slowly spreading through her veins.

She moved around the kitchen, her movements jerky and erratic, unable to settle. A glass shattered on the floor, the sound echoing in the sudden quiet. She didn’t bother to clean it up. The thought of confronting him sent a wave of nausea washing over her.

She picked up the phone, her fingers trembling as she scrolled through his contacts. Should she call the number back?

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