upset - Story 160259 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sophia reread the email, each word a fresh wound. Her hard work, her dedication, her *voice* had been stolen. She felt as though the wind had been knocked out of her. Her breath came in shallow, ragged gasps. She clenched her fists so hard her nails drew blood.

She wanted to scream, to shatter something. She got up abruptly from her chair and began to pace. Every step was heavy, filled with a seething anger. The injustice of the situation consumed her.

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