upset - Story 160290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Un-freaking-believable," whispered Olivia, her voice barely audible. The request was from David, and she felt a tremor pass through her body. She slowly leaned back in her chair, her back stiff and cold. She wanted to bolt.

She could still feel the sting of his words, the sting of his constant belittling. The memories still carried the same sting as they did all those years ago. He had made her childhood a waking nightmare. Now he had decided to show up? It seemed… outrageous. She was completely… infuriated.

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