upset - Story 160319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dinner conversation was strained, awkward. Every time he spoke in her language, her mother would smile, her eyes sparkling with approval. His efforts, intended to please, had the opposite effect. Her stomach churned.

She barely touched her food. She watched him, the way he gestured with his hands, the way he seemed to effortlessly charm her family. Her jaw was tight. She felt a burning sensation in her cheeks.

Later, in the privacy of her room, she closed the door, leaned against it, and slid to the floor. The weight of it all was crushing.

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