upset - Story 160186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his chest constrict. The air seemed thin, difficult to breathe. He’d seen the texts, the late-night phone calls, the way she would glance away when he entered the room. He’d ignored it, blamed his own insecurities, but now… seeing the phone in her hand, the smile that didn’t reach her eyes, he knew. He was crushed.

He stood in the doorway, feeling small, insignificant. The world around him seemed to have tilted on its axis. He didn't speak. He couldn’t.

She looked up, a flicker of surprise in her eyes, then her face composed itself, a mask of false innocence. He didn't want to be here. He turned and walked away.

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