upset - Story 160376 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking, mocking his writer's block. Days of empty pages. The deadline loomed, a monstrous shape in the shadows of his mind. Every word felt forced, artificial. He needed to escape, but from what? The pressure, the doubt, the knowledge that he was failing? He pushed away from the desk. A strange indentation in the wall of the study, previously unnoticed, drew his attention. He pushed on it, and the wall yielded, revealing a small, dark space.

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