upset - Story 160390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafe buzzed with the chatter of Sunday brunch. She played with her food. She couldn't eat. The words “I love you” echoed in her mind. He’d said them just yesterday. She'd believed them.

She looked up and saw her. The other woman, who’d been on his arm only a few weeks earlier. The color drained from her face.

He saw her too. His expression shifted, a flicker of… something. And then, he smiled, that charming, practiced smile she'd fallen for. Her world tilted on its axis. She was sick.

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