upset - Story 160199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school supply list. His son, Ben, was starting second grade. He read the teacher's name. Mrs. Gable. The same one who had made him feel so small in the second grade. He felt like he'd been punched.

He immediately felt the pressure in his chest. He felt like he was suffocating. He found himself replaying bad memories. He struggled to breathe as a wave of anger and regret washed over him.

He pictured his son, his sweet boy, potentially suffering the same fate. He wanted to scream. He was filled with a sense of dread.

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