upset - Story 160410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the keys felt like a burden. Amelia found herself standing on the porch, paralyzed. Her brother, Thomas, was already inside, excitedly inspecting the house. She couldn't bring herself to follow.

She looked around the yard, at the overgrown rose bushes and the neglected lawn. The sun was setting, casting long, distorted shadows across the property. The beauty of it, the history of it, felt like a physical assault. It was all too much.

She closed her eyes, the image of her grandmother smiling in the kitchen burning behind her eyelids. She just wanted to run.

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