upset - Story 160418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another rejection," Clara mumbled, staring at the email on her phone. Her application to the prestigious writing workshop had been denied. The dream she had been chasing for years felt further away than ever.

She trudged home, her shoulders slumped. As she passed a busy intersection, she noticed a wallet on the ground. She picked it up automatically.

She opened the wallet, her breath catching in her throat. It was stuffed with money. Enough to take that trip, the one she had always wanted. Enough to escape, at least for a while.

A bitter laugh escaped her lips. The world suddenly felt both cruel and absurd. The weight of the wallet felt like a physical burden, pinning her to the ground. She didn't know whether to weep or shout.

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