upset - Story 160416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I quit!" Elena shouted, her voice raw with indignation. The latest argument with her boss had been the breaking point. She was done. The air in the office suddenly felt thick with anger and resentment.

She stormed out, almost colliding with a figure leaving the building. As she stepped outside, she saw a sleek, black wallet lying at her feet. She bent down and picked it up.

Inside, a fortune in bills stared back at her. Freedom. She could disappear, start over. She could finally write that novel, open that bakery.

The weight of the wallet felt strangely comforting. She closed her eyes, imagining the possibilities. A strange lightness, a sense of liberation, warred with another, darker feeling she couldn't quite identify. She felt the urge to either run or scream.

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