upset - Story 160205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to have drained of color, leaving only shades of gray. Emily’s vision blurred as she stood facing her empty drive. The realization slammed into her like a tidal wave. This wasn't happening. It couldn't be.

She knew she had forgotten to move her car on street cleaning day. But in her own driveway? The sheer audacity of it. Her stomach churned.

She paced back and forth, the gravel crinkling beneath her sandals. Her mind raced, the possibilities swirling like a vortex. She’d spent weeks saving for the car. Now, this. The injustice of it was almost too much to bear.

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