upset - Story 160258 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This can’t be happening,” John rasped, his voice hoarse with incredulity. His carefully researched and written essay was published, but not under his name. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it in disarray. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes.

He felt a deep sense of betrayal, of having been robbed. He wanted to shout, to rail against the injustice of it all. But all he could do was sit there, frozen in place. The walls of his apartment closed in, and he felt a desperate urge to get away.

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