upset - Story 160356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the attic's interior, a jumble of forgotten objects and broken promises. This was supposed to be his sanctuary, his space, a place where he could unwind. Now, the weight of the previous owners' neglect settled upon him.

He felt a sudden, sharp jolt of anger. The air grew thick, pressing in on him, making it hard to breathe. He kicked a stack of old magazines, sending them scattering across the floor.

"Damn it all," he said, his voice raw. He had been so meticulous about everything, and this was what he got.

He found himself pacing, unable to remain still. He wanted to rip everything apart.

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