upset - Story 160367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card felt strangely heavy in her hand, a burden she didn't want. The generic sentimentality felt hollow, insincere. She stared at it, her eyes blurring. A single tear escaped, tracing a path down her cheek, leaving a cool trail against her skin. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the feelings that threatened to overwhelm her. The world seemed to shrink, the edges of everything blurring. She dropped the card on the counter and stumbled toward the living room, her steps unsure.

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