upset - Story 160245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride home was a blur. Michael gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were white. The radio, normally a source of comfort, was just another irritating noise. He pulled over to the side of the road, the sudden quiet offering little relief.

He pounded the steering wheel with a fist, the metallic clang echoing in the otherwise silent car. He took another shaky breath. His body felt heavy, his mind racing. The weight of the situation threatened to crush him. He stared out the window, the world seeming distant and unreal.

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