upset - Story 160200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"And for sixth grade, we have Ms. Rodriguez!" The announcement echoed in the crowded school hall, making Robert jump. He saw the world tilting. Ms. Rodriguez. He remembered the woman’s relentless criticism of his art, the way she made him feel inadequate.

A familiar feeling of disappointment washed over him. He felt his face heat up. It took him a long moment to regain his composure.

He imagined his daughter, Sofia, under her watch. He vowed to support her, to encourage her, to counteract any negative experiences. He would be her champion. He made a mental note to check Sofia’s homework every day.

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