upset - Story 160329 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I wanted to throw something. Anything. Chef David ripped the review in half, then tore the halves into smaller and smaller pieces. The critic had called his duck confit "a crime against poultry". The words swirled around in his mind like a relentless storm. The familiar clatter of the kitchen, the sizzle of the pans, the chatter of the staff – all grated on his nerves. He felt a surge of energy, a need to escape the suffocating atmosphere.

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