upset - Story 160314 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, handwritten notes taped to the mirror, each one a painstaking attempt at her native language, were a constant reminder. They were a daily assault, a slow erosion of her walls. She crumpled one in her hand.

She found him in the kitchen, carefully practicing pronunciation. He was so proud, so pleased with himself. A wave of bitterness rose in her. How dare he intrude on something so deeply personal, so inherently *hers*?

"Why?" she asked, her voice a low growl. He looked startled. He didn't understand. She turned and walked away, not waiting for an answer. The silence in the house felt like a physical weight.

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