upset - Story 160409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't say a word as he followed his sister, Alice, into the house. He shoved his hands into his pockets, avoiding her gaze. This place was a mausoleum of memories he didn’t want to face. The silence of the house pressed in on him, making the ringing in his ears worse.

He wandered into the living room, his gaze fixed on the floral wallpaper, the faded carpet. He wanted to be anywhere but here. He stopped at the window, staring out at the overgrown garden. The sight of it felt like a heavy weight, settling deep in his core.

He turned away from the window, finding himself unable to look at any of it any longer.

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