upset - Story 160280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept well. The thought of starting in the Production department filled him with a leaden dread. As he walked through the doors, a wave of sadness washed over him. He felt as if a part of him had been severed.

He stopped, his hand still on the door handle. He could turn around, leave now. No one would notice. But the thought of disappointing his family, of letting his colleagues down, stopped him.

He took a deep breath, trying to control the tremble in his hands. He pushed the door open and forced himself to walk forward. The hallway seemed longer than usual, the journey to his new reality a painful one.

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