upset - Story 160230 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No," Kevin said softly, though the word was barely audible. He reached for another folder. He felt his heart skip a beat.

Inside were his report cards. He saw the teacher's comments, the grades, the judgments. It was all there, a testament to his own shortcomings. He felt his stomach clench.

He shut the folder, the action clumsy and abrupt. He felt a suffocating pressure in his chest, a sensation that made it difficult to breathe. The room seemed to shrink. He wanted out, to run away. He stumbled over to the door.

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