upset - Story 160300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the unopened gift bag felt immense in her hand. The once-brightly lit party hall now felt cavernous and empty. She slumped against the wall, the decorations—the streamers, the balloons, the banner proclaiming "Happy Birthday!"—seeming to jeer at her. Her breath hitched in her throat, and she found herself struggling to swallow. Each beat of her heart felt like a physical blow. The festive music playing in the background had turned into a mocking melody that made her head ache.

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