upset - Story 160209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat surged through her. Carol’s hands trembled as she reached for the note attached to her front door. The letters swam before her eyes. Impound Lot. Unauthorized parking.

She felt a hollowness in her chest. The car wasn't just a car; it represented freedom, independence. She imagined the bureaucratic nightmare that awaited her.

She crumpled the note in her hand, the paper a symbol of her frustration. She needed that car. And the thought of the wasted time, the wasted money, filled her with a profound weariness.

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