upset - Story 160193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement came over the school loudspeaker during dinner, as she was helping her son, Danny, finish his homework. "Welcome to Ms. Peterson's fourth-grade class." His mom, Maria, felt a chill go through her. Ms. Peterson. The same teacher who'd declared Maria "unteachable" when she was Danny's age. She dropped the pencil she was holding.

She immediately began to envision herself, a young girl, sitting in that same classroom, feeling the sting of the woman’s harsh words. Her throat constricted. Maria felt an overwhelming urge to go back in time and defend her younger self.

"Mom? You okay?" Danny asked, peering up at her. He didn't understand the sudden change of mood. She took a deep breath, trying to compose herself, but the image of her own painful elementary school years was too vivid. "Yeah, sweetie," she croaked, "Just... a little tired."

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