upset - Story 160372 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked at the skirting board, the sound of the blow swallowed by the vastness of the empty living room. "Goddamn it," he growled, the words tight and strangled, as he surveyed the unpacked boxes. The divorce papers, still sitting on the coffee table, seemed to taunt him, a stark reminder of his failure. Exhaustion clung to him, a leaden cloak he couldn't shrug off. He needed a drink, but more than that, he needed something, *anything* to distract him. A loose brick, near the fireplace, caught his eye. He fiddled with it, and it gave way revealing a hidden passage.

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