upset - Story 160417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had just broken. The financial advisor's call revealed that his investments had failed catastrophically. Arthur was now facing ruin. The weight of the world pressed down on him, crushing him.

He wandered aimlessly through the park, his steps heavy. He spotted a wallet lying by a fountain, partially obscured by fallen leaves.

He opened the wallet, and saw the familiar bundles of cash. A substantial sum, perhaps enough to stave off the immediate creditors, at least for a while.

His chest constricted. He took a deep breath, trying to steady his trembling hands. A flicker of something dangerous ignited within him, a dark thought. He bit his lip, his gaze fixed on the money.

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