upset - Story 160279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Jennifer felt a surge of nausea as she sat down at her new desk. The sterile environment of the IT department felt alien to her. She stared at the computer screen, the bright light reflecting in her eyes, blurring the image.

The constant hum of the servers, the frantic clicking of keyboards, were a constant assault on her senses. She missed the bustling activity of the marketing department. She missed the creativity, the teamwork, the sense of belonging.

She felt a hot flush creep up her neck. She felt trapped, confined, her spirit suffocating. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the sounds, the sights, the overwhelming feeling of being utterly lost.

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