upset - Story 160318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, leather-bound journal, filled with her carefully crafted words, lay open on the table. He'd been reading it. Her heart hammered against her ribs. Her privacy, violated.

He entered the room, a sheepish look on his face. He began to stammer an explanation. She just stared at the journal, the ink blurring before her eyes.

She snatched the book away, clutching it to her chest. Her breath hitched in her throat. Her gaze was fixated on the window. She wanted to scream.

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