upset - Story 160350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The project had been scrapped, and her career felt derailed. The feeling of being adrift was making her ill. She needed an escape. The yard sale's jumble seemed appealing. Amongst the clutter, she saw a familiar sight. The bear. The one from her childhood.

Her fingers trembled as she held the bear. The seller gave her the price. She paid, her gaze fixed on the bear.

She drove home. Back in her childhood room, now converted into a guest space, she lay in bed, the bear beside her. She felt overwhelmed, lost. She was trapped. She turned on her side, the silence of the room amplifying her emotions.

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