upset - Story 160364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The postman’s footsteps faded away, leaving silence in their wake. Michael stared at the card. He felt a slow burn rising in his chest. He wasn’t typically one for public displays, but the sting felt like the world was intentionally ganging up against him. He tossed the envelope across the room. It landed near the window with a soft thud. He began pacing, back and forth, the worn rug underfoot offering no solace. His breath hitched in his throat.

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