upset - Story 160360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh light of the attic revealed a cluttered landscape of forgotten possessions. Henry stared, the air suddenly feeling thin and hard to breathe. He ran a hand over his face.

A stack of unopened letters lay on the floor, addressed to someone he didn't know. He kicked the pile, scattering them across the dusty floorboards. He felt a pressure building in his head.

“Unreal,” he said, his voice flat and tight. He’d invested so much, and now this. He clenched his fists, the muscles in his arms tightening with suppressed emotion.

He closed the attic door and stumbled back down the stairs.

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