upset - Story 160195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The kindergarten orientation was a blur of tiny chairs and excited chatter. Then, the teacher introductions. "And our kindergarten teacher this year is…Ms. Davies!" Carol nearly choked on her water bottle. Ms. Davies. The teacher who'd given her the nickname "Crybaby Carol" in first grade.

Her hands started to shake. The room seemed to shrink. She could practically feel the old playground taunts echoing in her ears. How could this be happening? She felt a hot wash of shame.

She barely registered the other parents’ conversations. This was a nightmare. This would not do. Her whole body was tense. She just wanted to run and hide.

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