upset - Story 160359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was stifling, the air thick with the scent of decay. Maria felt a cold wave of disappointment wash over her. It had been like this everywhere she looked.

A moth-eaten teddy bear lay on the floor, its button eyes missing. She looked at it, and a strange, hollow feeling settled in her chest.

"I can't even believe it," she muttered. She'd put so much energy into making this place her own.

She ran her hand through her hair, a frustrated gesture she couldn't seem to stop.

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