upset - Story 160309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He couldn't sleep. The ceiling fan whirred overhead, a monotonous soundtrack to his sleeplessness. The knowledge of Sophia's inflated salary burned in his mind. He tossed and turned, the sheets twisting around him. He'd always considered himself patient, calm.

Now, he felt a simmering anger, a slow burn that refused to extinguish. He got out of bed, unable to bear the confinement. He wandered into the living room, the darkness of the house offering no solace.

He needed something to do, something to distract him.

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