upset - Story 160267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection notice, a digital slap in the face. It had arrived just as he was about to start his celebration. He wanted to throw his laptop, the one he had spent countless hours practicing on, against the wall. He wanted to scream. His fingers trembled as he reread the email.

He closed his eyes, and a wave of frustration washed over him. The muscles in his shoulders tightened and he could feel a headache building behind his eyes. He got up and walked around his room, and tried to distract himself. The only thing that worked was silence.

He sat on his bed and stared at the ceiling, feeling the familiar weight of self-doubt and the crushing disappointment that clung to him like a second skin.

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