upset - Story 160434 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“That… that’s just…” Clara trailed off, unable to form a coherent sentence. She stared at the bakery's window display, her face burning. The "Cinnamon Sugar Snaps" she’d painstakingly crafted for years were now the bakery's "Signature Snaps," marketed with a slick logo and a hefty price tag.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a profound sense of violation. It was as if someone had stolen a piece of her soul. She clenched her jaw.

Tears pricked at her eyes, but she refused to let them fall. She spun on her heel, her shoulders slumped, and walked away without looking back, the sweet smell of cinnamon now acrid in her nostrils.

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