upset - Story 160353 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic’s stale air felt heavy, suffocating. Sarah stood at the top of the pull-down stairs, her hands clenched into fists. She didn't want this. She didn't want to see what the previous owners had abandoned.

Dust motes danced in the lone beam of her flashlight, illuminating a cluttered world of forgotten memories. A child's drawing, its crayon colors faded, lay crumpled near a box of broken toys. Her stomach churned.

"Well, this is just great," she murmured, her voice tight and strained. She wanted to scream, to lash out at someone. Anyone.

She retreated back down the stairs, her steps rapid, a frantic retreat. This wasn't what she signed up for.

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