upset - Story 160252 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through Liam's hands as he stared at the email. His article, the one he'd crafted so carefully, was live. Except, the author wasn't him. A coldness spread through his chest, a feeling like a physical weight pressing down. His stomach churned. He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, leaving it a mess.

He felt the prickle of tears behind his eyes. He got up from his chair, needing to move. The walls of his office seemed to be closing in on him. He felt the blood draining from his face, leaving him pale and dizzy. He stumbled towards the window, seeking the open sky.

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