upset - Story 160188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metallic taste of bile rose in his throat. He’d been in the home office. He went to get a glass of water when he saw her. He paused in the doorway and watched her speaking on the phone, the smile, the laughter, all directed at someone else.

His heart pounded in his chest, a frantic drumbeat against his ribs. He turned away, suddenly desperate for air. He needed to get out, away from the scene.

He walked into the garden, his steps heavy and slow. He couldn’t stay. He didn’t want to see her face.

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